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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7677

שַׁבָּתוֹן

shabbathonshab-baw-thone'

sabbath observance

11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shabbâthôwn

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7677is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 7
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7677

a sabbatism or special holiday

The King James renders it: rest, sabbath.

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

shabbathon is rendered "sabbath observance". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Eight of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
  • The Greek text spells it seven different ways.

The first use

He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

Exodus 16:23שַׁבָּת֧וֹן

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eight of the word's eleven uses are in Leviticus.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • sabbath observance7
  • a sabbath observance4

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.

שַׁבָּתshabbathSabbathUses110
שַׁבְלוּלshablulsnailUses1

The words it stands beside

All 11, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

7 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

  • שַׁבָּת֖וֹן2
  • שַׁבָּת֥וֹן2
  • שַׁבָּתוֹן֙2
  • שַׁבָּת֔וֹן2
  • שַׁבָּת֧וֹן1
  • שַׁבָּת֛וֹן1
  • שַׁבָּתֽוֹן׃1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular11HNcmsa

Exodus

three uses
  • He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

    Exodus 16:23

    • שַׁבָּת֧וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sabbath observance
  • For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

    Exodus 31:15

    • שַׁבָּת֛וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance
  • For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.

    Exodus 35:2

    • שַׁבָּת֖וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance

Leviticus

eight uses
  • It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.

    Leviticus 16:31

    • שַׁבָּת֥וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance
  • For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

    Leviticus 23:3

    • שַׁבָּתוֹן֙shabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance
  • “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

    Leviticus 23:24

    • שַׁבָּת֔וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sabbath observance
  • It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”

    Leviticus 23:32

    • שַׁבָּת֥וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance
  • On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.

    Leviticus 23:39

    • שַׁבָּת֔וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sabbath observance
    • שַׁבָּתֽוֹן׃shabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: a sabbath observance
  • But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    Leviticus 25:4

    • שַׁבָּתוֹן֙shabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance
  • You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

    Leviticus 25:5

    • שַׁבָּת֖וֹןshabatonnoun · masculine singulartagged: sabbath observance

The letters

Gematria 758· 1,408 mispar gadol

Where it leads

Studies that open this word2

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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