שָׁבַת
sha.vat
to cease
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Occurrences in Scripture
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On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
Genesis 2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
Genesis 8:22While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
Exodus 5:5Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens.”
Exodus 12:15“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 16:30So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 23:12“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
Exodus 31:17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”
Exodus 34:21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Exodus 34:21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Leviticus 2:13Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt. You shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Leviticus 26:6“ ‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Leviticus 26:34Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
Leviticus 26:35As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
Deuteronomy 32:26I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Joshua 5:12The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua 22:25For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.” ’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
Ruth 4:14The women said to Naomi, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you today without a near kinsman. Let his name be famous in Israel.
2 Kings 23:5He got rid of the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
2 Kings 23:11He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Chronicles 16:5When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work cease.
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Nehemiah 4:11Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”
Nehemiah 6:3I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”
Job 32:1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Psalms 8:2From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
Psalms 46:9He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
Psalms 89:44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
Psalms 119:119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
Proverbs 18:18The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.
Proverbs 22:10Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Isaiah 13:11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Isaiah 16:10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
Isaiah 17:3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
Isaiah 24:8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Isaiah 24:8The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
Isaiah 33:8The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
Jeremiah 7:34Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a waste.”
Jeremiah 16:9For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 31:36“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
Jeremiah 36:29Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’
Jeremiah 48:33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab. I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses. No one will tread with shouting. The shouting will be no shouting.
Jeremiah 48:35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab,” says Yahweh, “him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.
Lamentations 5:14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.