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sabbath::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | day of rest, rest day |
| Derivation | sabbatarian, sabbatical |
Examples of sabbath
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We didn't hear of a sabbath, so that comes to 91 hours a week, with a month off.
From the economist.com
Sabbath must suffer indignities that are even greater than the ones he dishes out.
From the npr.org
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day.
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Sabbath is an important part of the belief and practice of seventh-day Christians.
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Sunday is set aside in the western world because it is the Christian sabbath.
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Sabbath was first described in the Biblical account of the seventh day of Creation.
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According to legend, the fiddler and ladies came up to the moor one sabbath.
From the guardian.co.uk
We are told the P story makes the point that even God observes the sabbath.
From the scienceblogs.com
The pamphlet erroneously claims that the papacy officially changed the sabbath in 364.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- A day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
- Sabbath or a sabbath is generally a weekly day of rest and/or time of worship observed in Abrahamic religions and other practices. Many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia. ...
- Black Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). ...
- Sabbath in Christianity is the inclusion or adoption in Christianity of a Sabbath day. Established within Judaism through Mosaic Law, Christians inherited a Sabbath practice that reflected two great precepts: the commandment to "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" and God's blessing of the seventh day (Saturday) as a day of rest in the Genesis creation narrative...
- Sabbath is the name of a recurring villain from the Eighth Doctor Adventures -- spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. The character was created by Lawrence Miles and first appeared in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street. ...
- Shabbat (Ashkenazi pronunciation: Shabbos, Yiddish: Shabbes, "rest" or "cessation") is the seventh day of the Jewish week and a day of rest in Judaism. ...
- The Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as a day of rest in Judaism, Seventh-day Adventism, or Seventh Day Baptism, starting at sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday; Sunday, observed throughout the majority of Christianity as a day of rest; Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest ...
- The verb form of this word is shavat ^[str:7673] and literally means to cease or stop. It is first used in Genesis 2:2 where God "ceased" from his work. As ceasing from work is associated with resting some translate shavat as "rest. ...
- A day of rest and spiritual enrichment. See Shabbat; Shabbat Evening Home Ritual; Havdalah Home Ritual.
