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| 1. | the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the day of rest and religious observance among Jews and some Christians. Ex. 20:8–11. |
| 2. | the first day of the week, Sunday, similarly observed by most Christians in commemoration of the Resurrection of Christ. |
| 3. | any special day of prayer or rest resembling the Sabbath: Friday is the Muslim Sabbath. |
| 4. | (sometimes lowercase) a period of rest. |
| 5. | (sometimes lowercase) Demonology. Sabbat. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME, var. of sabbat, OE < L sabbatum < Gk sábbaton < Heb shabbāth rest]
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Sab·bath·less, adjective
Sab·bath·like, adjective
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Sabbath
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[Middle English sabat, from Old French sabbat and Old English sabat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Greek sabbaton, from Hebrew šabbāt, from šābat, to cease, rest; see šbt in Semitic roots.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
Sabbath
O.E. sabat "Saturday," observed by the Jews as a day of rest, from L. sabbatum, from Gk. sabbaton, from Heb. shabbath, prop. "day of rest," from shabath "he rested." The Babylonians regarded seventh days as unlucky, and avoided certain activities then; the Jewish observance may have begun as a similar custom. From the seventh day of the week, it began to be applied c.1410 to the first day (Sunday), a change completed during the Reformation. The original meaning is preserved in Sp. Sabado, It. Sabbato, and other languages' names for "Saturday." Hung. szombat, Rus. simbata, Fr. samedi, Ger. Samstag "Saturday" are from V.L. sambatum, from Gk. *sambaton, a vulgar nasalized variant of sabbaton.
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| a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Sabbath [ˈsӕbəθ] noun
(usually with the) a day of the week regularly set aside for religious services and rest — among the Jews, Saturday; among most Christians, Sunday
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Sabbath
The holy day of rest and reflection observed each Saturday among the Jews. This custom fulfills the third of the Ten Commandments (“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”). The Sabbath commemorates the last of the seven days of Creation as described in the Book of Genesis, the day God rested from his labors of creating the heavens and the Earth.
Note: Christians have traditionally kept Sunday as a weekly day of rest in adaptation of the Jewish observance, and in commemoration of the Resurrection of Jesus. Some denominations, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, observe Saturday as the Sabbath.
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Sabbath
Sab"bat\, n. [See Sabbath.] In medi[ae]val demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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