Definition of Sabbeth
Sabbath, the seventh day of the week, observed by the Jews as a day
of "rest" from all work and "holy to the Lord," as His day, specially in
commemoration of His rest from the work of creation, the observance of
which by the Christian Church has been transferred to the first of the
week in commemoration of Christ's resurrection.
- Wikipedia
Sab"bath (?), n. [OE. sabat,
sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr.
sa`bbaton, fr. Heb. shabbāth, fr.
shābath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat.]
1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven
appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined
upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the
Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last
to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's
Day.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Ex. xx. 8.
2. The seventh year, observed among the
Israelites as one of rest and festival. Lev. xxv. 4.
3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose;
intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the
tomb. Pope.
Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of
the Sabbath. -- Sabbath breaking, the
violation of the law of the Sabbath. -- Sabbath-day's
journey, a distance of about a mile, which, under
Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the
Sabbath.
Syn. -- Sabbath, Sunday. Sabbath is
not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the
institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week.
The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the
Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England,
the first day of the week has been called "the Sabbath," to
mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at
present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. "So
if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful
to keep the Christian Sabbath day, which is the Sunday."
Homilies.
Sab"bath (?), n. [OE. sabat,
sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr.
sa`bbaton, fr. Heb. shabbāth, fr.
shābath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat.]
1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven
appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined
upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the
Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last
to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's
Day.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Ex. xx. 8.
2. The seventh year, observed among the
Israelites as one of rest and festival. Lev. xxv. 4.
3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose;
intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the
tomb. Pope.
Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of
the Sabbath. -- Sabbath breaking, the
violation of the law of the Sabbath. -- Sabbath-day's
journey, a distance of about a mile, which, under
Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the
Sabbath.
Syn. -- Sabbath, Sunday. Sabbath is
not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the
institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week.
The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the
Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England,
the first day of the week has been called "the Sabbath," to
mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at
present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. "So
if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful
to keep the Christian Sabbath day, which is the Sunday."
Homilies.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God
made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the
Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this
is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy
neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient
that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early
Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of
the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious
jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is
reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water
version of the Fourth Commandment:
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able,
And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable.
Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the
captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine
ordinance.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as a day of rest in Judaism, starting at sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday.
- Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest.
- Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest.
- A meeting of witches at midnight.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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