Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- to cease H7673A 69
- to keep H7673B 2
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific); (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
שָׁבַת 71 vb. cease, desist, rest
Qal 27
1. cease
2. desist from labour, rest
Niph. cease
Hiph. 40
1. cause to cease, put an end to
2. = exterminate, destroy
3. cause to desist from
4. remove
5. cause to fail, let be lacking
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[שָׁבַת] vb. denom. keep, observe (sabbath)
Every occurrence
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Amos 8:4 וְלַשְׁבִּ֖ית ve.lash.Bit · The “to do” form of an action: causing it
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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