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שַׁבָּתוֹן

shabaton · solemn rest

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7677 · appears 11 times in the Bible

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What it means

shabaton (שַׁבָּתוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “solemn rest”.

A day when all work is laid aside.

How to say it

sha·ba·ton

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A day or year with no work at all.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Exodus 16:23

    He said to them, “This is what YHWH has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to YHWH. What you will bake, bake; and what you will boil, boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’ ”

  • Exodus 31:15

    For six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to YHWH. Whoever does work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

  • Exodus 35:2

    Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there shall be for you a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to YHWH; whoever does work on it shall be put to death.

  • Leviticus 16:31

    It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

  • Leviticus 23:3

    Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work at all; it is a Sabbath to YHWH in all your dwellings.

  • Leviticus 23:24

    “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a solemn rest, a memorial with a blast of acclamation, a holy convocation.

  • Leviticus 23:32

    It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening to evening, you shall cease in your Sabbath.”

  • Leviticus 23:39

    But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of YHWH seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

  • Leviticus 25:4

    but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.

  • Leviticus 25:5

    What grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

And 1 more times.