rosends
Well-Known Member
One of the other threads ("Three days and Three nights") has been touching on an issue of a "Sabbath" and what day of the week it falls on. However, as that is not the primary focus of that link, to hijack it to pursue that line of thinking seems wrong, so I'm starting this one instead.
The word in Hebrew is sh-b-t (that's the 3 consonants...add in the vowels kamatz and patach and you get shAbbAt).
As a noun those 3 letters appear 111 times in the Tanach, referring to one of 4 things:
1. the seventh day of the week
2. the seventh year of the 7 year cycle
3. 1 week
4. 1 seven year cycle
The word, in any form, never refers to any other day.
The 3 letter verb-root sh-v-t (a vet instead of a bet, but with the same base of kamatz-patach) appears 71 times and means
1. stopped working
2. ceased (3 times as the passive "was ceased")
3. nullified (was nullified)
4. destroyed
Its use in Ex 12:15 is as a verb - you (plural) shall nullify (tashbitu) grain from your houses.
Sh-v-t with 2 segols underneath (shEvEt) refers to the place of destruction or nullification or the ceasing, itself.
Shabbaton (sh-b-t-N) appears 11 times to refer to a form of rest on holidays and during the 7th year.
So I'm not sure where people came up with the idea that there is a some separate "Sabbath" as a day which appears at a time before Passover and is distinct from the weekly Sabbath.
And btw, if you are wondering, there is also a root sh-v-h, related to people captured in war or prisoners. Sh'vut means "returning to a former status" and sh'vi is a general term for prisoners of war. Shav is the base for words related to returning or reverting.
If someone can explain how this notion of a second sabbath was created and supported, I would appreciate it.
The word in Hebrew is sh-b-t (that's the 3 consonants...add in the vowels kamatz and patach and you get shAbbAt).
As a noun those 3 letters appear 111 times in the Tanach, referring to one of 4 things:
1. the seventh day of the week
2. the seventh year of the 7 year cycle
3. 1 week
4. 1 seven year cycle
The word, in any form, never refers to any other day.
The 3 letter verb-root sh-v-t (a vet instead of a bet, but with the same base of kamatz-patach) appears 71 times and means
1. stopped working
2. ceased (3 times as the passive "was ceased")
3. nullified (was nullified)
4. destroyed
Its use in Ex 12:15 is as a verb - you (plural) shall nullify (tashbitu) grain from your houses.
Sh-v-t with 2 segols underneath (shEvEt) refers to the place of destruction or nullification or the ceasing, itself.
Shabbaton (sh-b-t-N) appears 11 times to refer to a form of rest on holidays and during the 7th year.
So I'm not sure where people came up with the idea that there is a some separate "Sabbath" as a day which appears at a time before Passover and is distinct from the weekly Sabbath.
And btw, if you are wondering, there is also a root sh-v-h, related to people captured in war or prisoners. Sh'vut means "returning to a former status" and sh'vi is a general term for prisoners of war. Shav is the base for words related to returning or reverting.
If someone can explain how this notion of a second sabbath was created and supported, I would appreciate it.