שָׁבַת (sha.vat) means “to cease” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: shaw-bath' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
שָׁבַת · sha.vat · to cease
1) to cease, desist, rest 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cease 1a2) to rest, desist (from labour) 1b) (Niphal) to cease 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to cease, put an end to 1c2) to exterminate, destroy 1c3) to cause to desist from 1c4) to remove 1c5) to cause to fail
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שָׁבַת · sha.vat · to keep
(Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath
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a primitive root; to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
KJV glosses: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| i will put an end | 5 |
| he rested | 3 |
| and put an end | 2 |
| cease | 2 |
| has ceased | 2 |
| i will end | 2 |
| so i will put an end | 2 |
| and abandoned | 1 |
| and blot out | 1 |
| and deprive it | 1 |
| and he removed | 1 |
| and i will put an end | 1 |
| and obliterated | 1 |
| and remove them | 1 |
| and rid | 1 |
| and you would be stopping | 1 |
| ceased | 1 |
| comes to an end | 1 |
| ends | 1 |
| has ended | 1 |
| has left | 1 |
| have ceased | 1 |
| have left | 1 |
| he will put an end | 1 |
| i am going to remove | 1 |
| i have put an end | 1 |
| i have stopped | 1 |
| i will bring an end | 1 |
| i will remove | 1 |
| i will rid | 1 |
| is silent | 1 |
| josiah also did away with | 1 |
| leave | 1 |
| left | 1 |
| must observe | 1 |
| receive | 1 |
| rest | 1 |
| rested | 1 |
| rid us | 1 |
| so i will silence | 1 |
| stop | 1 |
| stopped | 1 |
| the land will have the rest | 1 |
| to cease | 1 |
| to silence | 1 |
| to stop | 1 |
| who do away with | 1 |
| who needs not | 1 |
| will cease | 1 |
| will come to an end | 1 |
| will disappear | 1 |
| will put an end | 1 |
| will rest | 1 |
| you are to keep | 1 |
| you are to remove | 1 |
| you discard | 1 |
| you have ended | 1 |
| you must cease | 1 |
| you must rest | 1 |
| you shall rest | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to cease | 17 |
| ceased | 4 |
| ceaseth | 4 |
| cease | 3 |
| shall cease | 3 |
| thou shalt rest | 3 |
| also shall cease | 2 |
| to fail | 2 |
| and cause them to cease | 1 |
| and cease | 1 |
| and he put down | 1 |
| and he rested | 1 |
| and he took away | 1 |
| and i will cause thee to cease | 1 |
| and i will rid | 1 |
| and shall cause to cease | 1 |
| and will cause to cease | 1 |
| and ye make them rest | 1 |
| because it did not rest | 1 |
| behold i will cause to cease | 1 |
| even to make | 1 |
| have ceased | 1 |
| he rested | 1 |
| is ceased | 1 |
| it shall rest | 1 |
| keep | 1 |
| make | 1 |
| moreover i will cause to cease | 1 |
| of them to cease | 1 |
| offered by him to cease | 1 |
| rest | 1 |
| rested | 1 |
| shall not cease | 1 |
| shall ye celebrate | 1 |
| she kept sabbath | 1 |
| that in it he had rested | 1 |
| that thou mightest still | 1 |
| then will i cause to cease | 1 |
| thereof have i made to cease | 1 |
| thou puttest away | 1 |
| to be lacking | 1 |
| which hath not left | 1 |
| ye shall put away | 1 |
Page 1 of 2. 67 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
Read word by wordThen God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Read word by wordAs long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Read word by wordPharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”
Read word by wordFor seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Read word by wordSo the people rested on the seventh day.
Read word by wordFor six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
Read word by wordIt is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
Read word by wordSix days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
Read word by wordAnd you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
Read word by wordIt will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
Read word by word“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
Read word by wordThen the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Read word by wordAs long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
Read word by wordI would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Read word by wordAnd the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
Read word by wordFor the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
Read word by wordThen the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.
Read word by wordJosiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
Read word by wordAnd he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.
Read word by wordWhen Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.
Read word by wordSo the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
Read word by wordAnd our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.5
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it to go down to you?”
Read word by wordSo these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Read word by wordFrom the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 8.3
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 46.10
You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 89.45
All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
Read word by wordCasting the lot ends quarrels and separates strong opponents.
Read word by wordDrive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
Read word by wordI will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
Read word by wordyou will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
Read word by wordJoy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.
Read word by wordThe fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Read word by wordA dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
Read word by wordThe joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
Read word by wordGet out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
Read word by wordThe highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
Read word by wordI will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
Read word by wordFor this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Read word by word“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
Read word by wordYou are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
Read word by wordJoy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.
Read word by wordIn Moab, declares the LORD, I will bring an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods.
Read word by wordThe elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Read word by wordJoy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Read word by wordWherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
Read word by wordSo I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
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