שֶׁבֶת
shebeth · H7674 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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sitting still, refraining, inactivity
Literally: sitting; hence: action by which humans refrain from engaging in an activity, either because they are unable or because they are unwilling
ExamplesExodus 21:19 if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall pay for his care until he is completely healed.
Proverbs 20:3 Avoiding strife is an honor for a person, But any fool will quarrel.
Isaiah 30:7 Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty. Therefore, I have called her “Rahab who has been exterminated.”
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 1
- הֶםtheir 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָבַטto look 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּבוֹדglory, honor 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵםthey, them 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- פּוּגָה pûwgâh · H6314 · respite, relief
- Both denote cessation or inactivity, such as rest and ceasing or sitting still.
- דְּמִי dᵉmîy · H1824 · to be silent, to keep silent
- This is true near-synonymy: both describe stopping or ceasing activity.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Furnishings001003001001008
- שֶׁבֶת (shebeth, H7674) occurs 4 times, glossed "cessation"/"a sitting still," an abstract sense of rest or cessation, not a physical furnishing. The "Furnishings" classification is bundle-shared with שֶׁבֶת (shebeth, H7675) in the source data and is not confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
- Non-Engage002003003012
- Exodus 21:19 rules that an assailant "shall only pay for his loss of time," directly attesting the enforced disengagement from labor this word denotes.
- Happen002002003003
- Exodus 21:19's ruling ties this "loss of time" to the injury that brought it about, reflecting the resulting turn of events this word's sense can describe; the other sampled citations (Proverbs 20:3, Isaiah 30:7) do not themselves clearly show this word's sense in the excerpts given.
- Space002002001017
- This word's "sit still" sense denotes remaining fixed in one place, though the sampled citations chiefly illustrate its "loss of time" sense rather than this spatial one directly.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7674. shebeth II. שֶׁ֫בֶת noun feminine cessation (dubious) Pro 20:3 (with ᵐ5 מֵרִיב…
II. שֶׁ֫בֶת noun feminine cessation (dubious) Pro 20:3 (with ᵐ5 מֵרִיב ἀποστρέφεσθαι = שׁוּב); שִׁבְתּוֺ Exo 21:19 i.e. from work = his loss of time (but Di I. שֶׁבֶת). — Isa 30:7 perhaps = a sitting still (indolently) √ישׁב, but probably corrupt, see Du Che and others
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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