<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Anglicized term "Sabbath" is in Hebrew Shabbath meaning "day of rest". It derives from the verb shavath of same Hebrew spelling but different pointing (שָׁבַת, Strong's 7673 as šāvat, often shavat), defined as "repose, i.e. desist from exertion" (often "rest" or "cease"). (Another noun form of this root, shebeth ("cessation", 7674), is identical to the infinitive (7675) of the common word "to sit" (yashav, 3427).) Shabbath is the intensified form and is used only for a weekly cessation, 107 times in the Tanakh . </P> <P> The name form is "Shabbethai" a name appearing three times in the Tanakh . The Talmud also contains a pun on shebeth, where it secondarily means "dill", a spice . Another related word is modern Hebrew shevita, a labor strike, with the same focus on active cessation of labor . And in over thirty languages other than English, the common name for Saturday is a cognate of "Sabbath". </P>

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