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sabbatical year

noun

Also called sabbatical leave. (in a school, college, university, etc.) a year, usually every seventh, of release from normal teaching duties granted to a professor, as for study or travel.
Chiefly Biblical. a yearlong period to be observed by Jews once every seven years, during which the fields were to be left untilled and all agricultural labors were to be suspended. Leviticus 25. Compare jubilee ( def 6 ).

sabbatical year

often capitals Bible a year during which the land was to be left uncultivated, debts annulled, etc, supposed to be observed every seventh year by the ancient Israelites according to Leviticus 25

First recorded in 1625–35

The seventh is the Sabbatical year, when bondsmen were to be released and debts go free.

The institution of the sabbatical year appears to afford another very apt illustration.

The Jubilee allowed the same privileges as the sabbatical year.

What more hardy than his dealing with the sabbatical year, with idolatry?

As in the sabbatical year, there is to be no sowing, nor reaping that which grows of itself, nor gathering of grapes.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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