Sabbath
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”),[1][2] with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th.[3] Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest")[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sabbath (plural Sabbaths)
- Friday evening to Saturday evening, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations (such as the Coptic Orthodox Church) as a day of rest and worship.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:13–14:
- 13 ¶ If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my Holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine owne wayes, nor finding thine owne pleasure, nor speaking thine owne wordes:
14 Then shalt thou delight thy selfe in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride vpon the high places of the earth, and feede thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
- Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
- A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
- Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 419:
- Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
- (historical) Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
- Synonym: Sabbath year
- (Buddhism, Myanmar) uposatha day
Derived terms
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[edit]- sabbat
- Sabbat
- sabbatarian
- Sabbatarian
- sabbatarianism
- Sabbatarianism
- sabbatic
- Sabbatic
- sabbatical
- Sabbatical
- sabbatically
- Sabbatically
- sabbatise
- Sabbatise
- Sabbatiser
- sabbatiser
- Sabbatism
- sabbatism
- Sabbatist
- sabbatist
- Sabbatistic
- sabbatistic
- sabbatistical
- Sabbatistical
- Sabbatize
- sabbatize
- sabbatizer
- Sabbatizer
- Shabbat
- shabbat
- shabbes
- Shabbes
- shabbos
- Shabbos
Translations
[edit]Saturday (Judaism, some denominations of Christianity)
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Sunday (most denominations of Christianity)
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witches' Sabbath
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “Sabbath”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “Sabbath”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Sabbath”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Pinches, T.G. (1919) “Sabbath (Babylonian)”, in Hastings, James, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Selbie, John A., contrib, Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 889–891
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