שָׁבַת

sha.vat · to cease

Hebrew · Strong's H7673 · Verb · Sounds like: shaw-bath' · 71 occurrences

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

  1. Joshua 5:12 וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֨ת vai.yish.Bot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

  2. Joshua 22:25 וְהִשְׁבִּ֤יתוּ ve.hish.Bi.tu · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by them

    for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Jehovah.

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