Greek noun (neuter) · G4521
σάββατον
sabbatonsab'-bat-on
the seventh day of the week, the sabbath; seven days, a week
68 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sábbaton
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4521is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4521
the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension, a se'nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications
The King James renders it: sabbath (day), week.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sabbaton is rendered "the seventh day of the week, the sabbath; seven days, a week". It stands 68 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "the seventh day of the week, the sabbath".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
Matthew 12:1σάββασιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's sixty-eight uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: the seventh day of the week, the sabbath, and seven days, a week.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the seventh day of the week, the sabbath__(a) the sing. form -ον | Tagged as
| WhereExodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. |
| seven days, a week__(a) the sing. form | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 28:1After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σαββατισμός | sabbatismos | Sabbath rest | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 68, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σαββάτῳ14
- σάββασιν13
- σάββατον13
- σαββάτων11
- σαββάτου9
- σαββάτου.¶2
- σαββάτῳ.¶2
- προσάββατον1
- σάββατα1
- σάββατόν1
- σαββάτου;¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular16N-DSN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural13N-DPN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular12N-GSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural11N-GPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular9N-ASN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular4N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural1N-APN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN-T
- PREP + G4521=N-ASN1PREP + G4521=N-ASN
Matthew
eleven uses
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
- σαββάτῳ.¶sabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent?
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbath
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: on a Sabbath
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Sabbaths
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of week
Mark
twelve uses
Then Jesus and His companions went to Capernaum, and right away Jesus entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and began to teach.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
- σαββάτου.¶sabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
In order to accuse Jesus, they were watching to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
And He asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?” But they were silent.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these ideas?” they asked. “What is this wisdom He has been given? And how can He perform such miracles?
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
- προσάββατονprosabbatonPREP + G4521=N-ASNtagged: before Sabbath
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus.
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: week
Luke
twenty uses
Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath He began to teach the people.
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain, rub them in their hands, and eat them.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a Sabbath
But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues,
- σάββασινsabbasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
- σαββάτου.¶sabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
“You hypocrites!” the Lord replied. “Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
- σαββάτου;¶sabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: on a Sabbath
So Jesus asked the experts in the law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: week
It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was beginning.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: week
John
thirteen uses
Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now this happened on the Sabbath day,
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat.”
- σάββατόνsabbatonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
- σαββάτῳ.¶sabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath —
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath —
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: week
It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of week
Acts
ten uses
Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: a Sabbath day’s
And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people urged them to continue this message on the next Sabbath.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
On the following Sabbath, nearly the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.
- σαββάτῳsabbatonoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river, where it was customary to find a place of prayer. After sitting down, we spoke to the women who had gathered there.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
- σάββαταsabbatanoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks alike.
- σάββατονsabbatonnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: week
1 Corinthians
one use
On the first day of every week, each of you should set aside a portion of his income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will be needed.
- σαββάτουsabbatounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: Sabbath
Colossians
one use
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
- σαββάτωνsabbatonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Sabbaths
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.