Strong's #7673: shabath (pronounced shaw-bath')
a primitive root; to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific):--(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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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shâbath
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
2) (Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2323, 2323c
Usage:
This word is used 71 times:
Lamentations 5:14: "The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music."
Lamentations 5:15: "The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."
Ezekiel 6:6: "and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished."
Ezekiel 7:24: "their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled."
Ezekiel 12:23: "GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb"
Ezekiel 16:41: "upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give"
Ezekiel 23:27: "Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not"
Ezekiel 23:48: "Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not"
Ezekiel 26:13: "And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard."
Ezekiel 30:10: "I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon."
Ezekiel 30:13: "I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no"
Ezekiel 30:18: "of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters"
Ezekiel 33:28: "most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate,"
Ezekiel 34:10: "my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock;"
Ezekiel 34:25: "of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely"
Daniel 9:27: "of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,"
Daniel 11:18: "many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn"
Hosea 1:4: "upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel."
Hosea 2:11: "I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts."
Hosea 7:4: "heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded"
Amos 8:4: "the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
