- Original: שׁבת - Transliteration: Shabath - Phonetic: shaw-bath' - Definition: 1. to cease, desist, rest a. (Qal) 1. to cease 2. to rest, desist (from labour) b. (Niphal) to cease c. (Hiphil) 1. to cause to cease, put an end to 2. to exterminate, destroy 3. to cause to desist from 4. to remove 5. to cause to fail 2. (Qal) to keep or observe the sabbath - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 2323, 2323c - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to repose that is desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causatively figuratively or specifically): - (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. Total KJV Occurrences: 71 • away, 3 Exodus 12:15; 2 Kings 23:11; Psalm 119:119 • cease, 37 Genesis 8:22; Deuteronomy 32:26; Joshua 22:25; 2 Chronicles 16:5; Nehemiah 4:11; Nehemiah 6:3; Psalm 46:9; Psalm 89:44; Proverbs 18:18; Proverbs 22:10; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 16:10; Isaiah 17:3; Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 30:11; Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 36:29; Jeremiah 48:35; Ezekiel 6:6; Ezekiel 7:24; Ezekiel 12:23; Ezekiel 16:41; Ezekiel 23:27; Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 26:13; Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 30:18; Ezekiel 33:28; Ezekiel 34:10; Ezekiel 34:25; Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:18; Hosea 1:4; Hosea 2:11 • ceased, 6 Joshua 5:12; Job 32:1; Isaiah 14:4(2); Lamentations 5:14; Lamentations 5:15 • ceaseth, 4 Isaiah 24:8(2); Isaiah 33:8; Hosea 7:4 • celebrate, 1 Leviticus 23:32 • down, 1 2 Kings 23:5 • fail, 2 Jeremiah 48:33; Amos 8:4 • keep, 1 Leviticus 25:2 • lacking, 1 Leviticus 2:13 • left, 1 Ruth 4:14 • rest, 7 Exodus 5:5; Exodus 23:12; Exodus 34:21(2); Leviticus 26:34; Leviticus 26:35(2) • rested, 4 Genesis 2:2; Genesis 2:3; Exodus 16:30; Exodus 31:17 • rid, 1 Leviticus 26:6 • sabbath, 1 2 Chronicles 36:21 • still, 1 Psalm 8:2