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. Genesis 2:2 וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ vai.yish.Bot · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

  2. Genesis 2:3 שָׁבַת֙ sha.Vat · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

  3. Genesis 8:22 יִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ׃ yish.Bo.tu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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