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Definition of Sabbath

1. Noun. A day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims.

Definition of Sabbath

1. n. 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.

Definition of Sabbath

1. Proper noun. The (Biblical) seventh (day) of the (week), observed as a day of rest in (Judaism), (Advent Seventh-day Adventism), or (Baptism Seventh Day Baptism), starting at (sundown) on (Friday) till sundown on (Saturday). ¹

2. Proper noun. (Sunday), observed throughout the majority of (Christianity) as a day of rest. ¹

3. Proper noun. (Friday), observed in (Islam) as a day of rest. ¹

4. Proper noun. A meeting of (witch witches) at (midnight). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sabbath

1. sabbat [n -S] - See also: sabbat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabbath

Literary usage of Sabbath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"3) ; in the Psalms the only reference to the sabbath is the heading of ... 6 mourns that Yahweh has caused feast-day and .sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Strictly speaking, therefore, the sabbath was neither a day of relief to ... So far, therefore, as the sabbath existed for any end outside itself it was an ..."

3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"And so Christ did not break the sabbath, but came to fulfil the shadow, and was the substance, who was the end of it, the lord of it, and therefore might do ..."

4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Concerning the sabbath also I have this to premise, that this question could not have arisen, if Christ did not publicly proclaim the Lord of the sabbath. ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"'The Light of Failli ana Way of Holiness,' 1630, 8vo. 2. ' The Doctrine of the sabbath Vindicated, in Confutation of a Treatise of the sabbath written by ..."

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