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HebrewH7678Proper Noun (Masculine)

שַׁבְּתַי

shab.b.tay

3Occurrences
H7678Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shabbethai, the name of three Israelites

from H7676 (שַׁבָּת); restful;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at § Shabbethai = "sabbatical" a Levite in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שַׁבְּתַי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Nehemiah
2
Ezra
1

Key Passages

Ezra 10:15BSB

(Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.)

Nehemiah 11:16BSB

Shabbethai and Jozabad, two leaders of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

Nehemiah 8:7BSB

The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.