sabbath
IPA: sˈæbʌθ
Root Word: Sabbath
noun
- Friday-Saturday, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations as a day of rest and worship.
- Sunday, observed in most of Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
- A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
- (historical) Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
- (Buddhism, Myanmar) uposatha day
- Alternative letter-case form of Sabbath [Friday-Saturday, observed in Judaism and some Christian denominations as a day of rest and worship.]
Examples of "sabbath" in Sentences
- All of them desecrate the Sabbath.
- The Sabbath was a day of intolerable gloom.
- On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
- I can hear the deep bell calling in the tranquil Sabbath.
- All the Jewish Holidays and the Sabbath recall the exodus.
- There is the tradition of observing the Sabbath on Saturday.
- In biblical sense, man is not made for Sabbath but Sabbath for man.
- Sunday is not a new sabbath, but rather the fulfillment of the sabbath.
- He was a forceful advocate for the Ethiopian form of observing the Sabbath.
- It is also forbidden to deliver the baby of a gentile women on the Sabbath.