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Lexicon :: Strong's H7673 - šāḇaṯ

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שָׁבַת
Transliteration
šāḇaṯ
Pronunciation
shaw-bath'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2323, 2323c

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁבַת shâbath, shaw-bath'; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x

The KJV translates Strong's H7673 in the following manner: cease (47x), rest (11x), away (3x), fail (2x), celebrate (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x
The KJV translates Strong's H7673 in the following manner: cease (47x), rest (11x), away (3x), fail (2x), celebrate (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. to cease, desist, rest

    1. (Qal)

      1. to cease

      2. to rest, desist (from labour)

    2. (Niphal) to cease

    3. (Hiphil)

      1. to cause to cease, put an end to

      2. to exterminate, destroy

      3. to cause to desist from

      4. to remove

      5. to cause to fail

  2. (Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁבַת shâbath, shaw-bath'; 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.
STRONGS H7673: Abbreviations
שָׁבַת 71 verb cease, desist, rest (Assyrian šabâtu, probably cease, be completed DlWB ZimKAT 3. 593 (JenZA iv (1889), 277 f. is sceptical); Arabic bdb099101 cut off, interrupt; Late Hebrew has שֶׁבֶת neglect, etc., Aramaic שִׁבְתָּא cost of neglect); —
Qal27 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׁ׳ Genesis 2:3 +; 3rd person plural שָׁבָ֑תוּ Lamentations 5:14, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׁבּוֺת Hosea 7:4; יִשְׁבֹּת Proverbs 22:10 + 2 times; 3rd person feminine singular תִּשְׁבֹּת Leviticus 26:35; תִּשְׁבַּת Leviticus 26:34; Nehemiah 6:3 +, etc.; —
1. cease: (absolute + 13 times) of seasons Genesis 8:22 (J); manna Joshua 5:12 (P), etc., Isaiah 14:4 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 6:3 +; with מִן Hosea 7:4 + 3 times
2. desist from labour, rest:
a. with מִן (of god) Genesis 2:2, 3(P).
b. מִן omitted, ב temporal Exodus 23:12 (E), Exodus 16:30; Exodus 34:21 (J), Exodus 31:17 (P); בֶּחָרִישׁ וּבַקָּצִיר שׁ׳ Exodus 34:21 (J; i.e., even in these busy seasons).
c. land in 7th year Leviticus 26:34, 35 (twice in verse) (H), 2 Chronicles 36:21. — Leviticus 23:32; Leviticus 25:2 see [שָׁבַת] verb denominative below.
† Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִשְׁבַּת Isaiah 17:3 + 2 times; plural נִשְׁבְּתוּ Ezekiel 6:6; — cease: absolute Ezekiel 6:6; Ezekiel 30:18; Ezekiel 33:28; with מִן Isaiah 17:3.
Hiph. 40 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִשְׁבִּית Ruth 4:14 +; 2nd person masculine singular הִשְׁבַּתָּ Psalm 89:45; Psalm 119:119, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַשְׁבִּיתּ Proverbs 18:18; Daniel 9:27; וַיַּשְׁבֵּת 2 Kings 23:11; 2 Chronicles 16:5, etc.; Infinitive construct הַשְׁבִּית Psalm 8:3; לַשְׁבִּית Amos 8:4 (Ges§ 53q); Imperative masculine plural הַשְׁבִּ֫יתוּ Isaiah 30:11; Participle מַשְׁבִּית Jeremiah 16:9; Psalm 46:10; —
1. cause to cease, put an end to: with accusative mirth Hosea 2:13, work 2 Chronicles 16:5; Nehemiah 4:5; sacrifice Daniel 9:27; war Psalm 46:10, compare Isaiah 13:11; Ezekiel 7:24; Proverbs 18:18 + 6 times, + קוֺל שָׂשׂוֺן מִן הִשׁ׳ Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9, compare Jeremiah 48:33.
2. = exterminate, destroy: with accusative 2 Kings 23:5, 11; Amos 8:4 (Now conjectures העשׁקים), Hosea 1:4; Psalm 8:3; Psalm 119:119; with accusative + מִן, Jeremiah 36:29, מִן הָאָרֶץ Leviticus 26:6 (H), Ezekiel 34:25; אלילים Ezekiel 30:13; Deuteronomy 32:26.
3. cause to desist from: with מִן Ezekiel 16:41; Ezekiel 34:10; Exodus 5:5 (E = give rest from); לְבִלְתִּי infinitive Joshua 22:25 (P).
4. remove)= מִן הֵסִיר): with מִן Ezekiel 23:27, 48; Psalm 89:45 (text dubious: read הִשְׁבַּתּוֺ [3] Greek Version of the LXX Du; מַטֵּה הֹדוֺ Herz Che, see also below טֳהָר); leaven מבתים Exodus 12:15 (P); מִמָּנֵינוּ ישׂר׳ אֶחקֿ׳ הַשׁ׳ Isaiah 30:11.
5. cause to fail, let be lacking: salt מֵעַל מִנְחָתֶ֑ךָ Leviticus 2:12 (P); accusative pers + ל person Jeremiah 48:35; Ruth 4:14.

† [שָׁבַת] verb denominative keep, observe (sabbath); —
Qal, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb; Perfect 3rd person feminine singular וְשָֽׁבְתָה הָאָרֶץ שַׁבָּת לי׳ Leviticus 25:2; 2nd person masculine plural מֵעֶרֶב עַדעֶֿרֶב תִּשְׁבְּתוּ שַׁבַּתְּכֶ֑ם Leviticus 23:32 (P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:2; 2:3; 2:3; 8:22

Exodus

5:5; 12:15; 16:30; 23:12; 31:17; 34:21; 34:21

Leviticus

2:12; 23:32; 23:32; 25:2; 25:2; 26:6; 26:34; 26:34; 26:35; 26:35

Deuteronomy

32:26

Joshua

5:12; 22:25

Ruth

4:14; 4:14

2 Kings

23:5; 23:11; 23:11

2 Chronicles

16:5; 16:5; 36:21

Nehemiah

4:5; 6:3; 6:3

Psalms

8:3; 8:3; 46:10; 46:10; 89:45; 89:45; 119:119; 119:119

Proverbs

18:18; 18:18; 22:10

Isaiah

13:11; 14:4; 17:3; 17:3; 30:11; 30:11

Jeremiah

7:34; 16:9; 16:9; 36:29; 48:33; 48:35

Lamentations

5:14

Ezekiel

6:6; 6:6; 7:24; 16:41; 23:27; 23:48; 30:13; 30:18; 33:28; 34:10; 34:25

Daniel

9:27; 9:27

Hosea

1:4; 2:13; 7:4; 7:4

Amos

8:4; 8:4

H7673

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Strong's Number H7673 matches the Hebrew שָׁבַת (šāḇaṯ),
which occurs 71 times in 67 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 2:2–Eze 7:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:2 - And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3 - Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:22 - “While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
Cold and heat,
Winter and summer,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:30 - So the people rested on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - “Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - ‘It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:21 - “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 2:13 - ‘And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:32 - “It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:2 - “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;
I will rid the land of evil beasts,
and the sword will not go through your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:34 - Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:35 - As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:26 - I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:25 - “For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no part in the LORD.” So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a close relative; and may his name be famous in Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:21 - to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:11 - And our adversaries said, “They will neither know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:3 - So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:1 - So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:2 - Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:9 - He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariot in the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:44 - You have made his glory cease,
And cast his throne down to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:119

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:119 - You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:18 - Casting lots causes contentions to cease,
And keeps the mighty apart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:10 - Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave;
Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:11 - “I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:4 - that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The golden[fn] city ceased!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:10 - Gladness is taken away,
And joy from the plentiful field;
In the vineyards there will be no singing,
Nor will there be shouting;
No treaders will tread out wine in the presses;
I have made their shouting cease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:2 - A distressing vision is declared to me;
The treacherous dealer deals treacherously,
And the plunderer plunders.
Go up, O Elam!
Besiege, O Media!
All its sighing I have made to cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:8 - The mirth of the tambourine ceases,
The noise of the jubilant ends,
The joy of the harp ceases.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11 - Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:8 - The highways lie waste,
The traveling man ceases.
He has broken the covenant,
He has despised the cities,[fn]
He regards no man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:34 - “Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. For the land shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:36 - “If those ordinances depart
From before Me, says the LORD,
Then the seed of Israel shall also cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - “And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘Thus says the LORD: “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to cease from here?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:33 - Joy and gladness are taken
From the plentiful field
And from the land of Moab;
I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses;
No one will tread with joyous shouting—
Not joyous shouting!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:35 - “Moreover,” says the LORD,
“I will cause to cease in Moab
The one who offers sacrifices in the high places
And burns incense to his gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,
And the young men from their music.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:15 - The joy of our heart has ceased;
Our dance has turned into mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be defiled.

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