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# שַׁבְּתַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7678

**Shabbethai** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Shabbethai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7678/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁבְּתַי: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7678/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. Levite;—Ezr 10:15; Ne 8:7; 11:16; Σαβ(β)αθαι, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shabbethai (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.16/#tree)

וְשַׁבְּתַ֨י וְיוֹזָבָ֜ד עַל־הַמְּלָאכָ֤ה הַחִֽיצֹנָה֙ לְבֵ֣ית הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מֵרָאשֵׁ֖י הַלְוִיִּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Shabbethai and Jozabad \[were\].over the work (the) external of the.house of.(the) God of the.leaders of the.Levites

*JPS 1917:* and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

[Ezra 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.15/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ יוֹנָתָ֧ן בֶּן־עֲשָׂהאֵ֛ל וְיַחְזְיָ֥ה בֶן־תִּקְוָ֖ה עָמְד֣וּ עַל־זֹ֑את וּמְשֻׁלָּ֛ם וְשַׁבְּתַ֥י הַלֵּוִ֖י עֲזָרֻֽם׃

*Word for word:* only Jonathan the.son of.Asahel and Jahzeiah the.son of.Tikvah they.stood on this and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite they supported.them

*JPS 1917:* Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7678/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).