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|txtha=σαββάτου, τό ([[Hebrew]] שַׁבָּת), [[found]] in the N. T. [[only]] in the historical books [[except]] [[twice]] in Paul's Epistles; sabbath; i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[seventh]] [[day]] of [[each]] week, [[which]] [[was]] a [[sacred]] [[festival]] on [[which]] the Israelites were required to [[abstain]] from [[all]] [[work]] ([[σάββατον]] and τό [[σάββατον]]: L Tr); λύειν, τηρεῖν, ἡ [[ἡμέρα]] τοῦ σαββάτου (הַשַּׁבָּת יום, [[ὁδός]] σαββάτου, a sabbath-[[day]]'s [[journey]], the [[distance]] it is [[lawful]] to [[travel]] on the sabbath-[[day]], i. e. according to the Talmud [[two]] [[thousand]] cubits or paces, according to Epiphanius (haer. 66,82) [[six]] stadia: Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]] Sabbathsweg; Oehler in Herzog xiii., 203 f (cf. Leyrer in Herzog edition 2vol. 9:379); Mangold in Sehenkel v., 127f; (Ginsburg in [[Alexander]]'s Kitto [[under]] the [[word]] Sabbath Day's Journey; Lumby on Winer's Grammar, § 31,9b.; Buttmann, § 133,26): σαββάτῳ, G L T Tr WH); τῷ σαββάτῳ, L [[text]] T Tr WH; ἐν σαββάτῳ, L WH brackets ἐν),23; ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ, τό [[σάββατον]] [[during]] (on) the sabbath (cf. Buttmann, § 131,11; Winer's Grammar, § 32,6): [[κατά]] [[πᾶν]] [[σάββατον]] [[every]] sabbath, τά σάββατα, of [[several]] sabbaths, τά σαββάτων (for the [[singular]]) of a [[single]] sabbath, sabbath-[[day]] (the [[use]] of the plural [[being]] occasioned [[either]] by the plural names of festivals, as τά [[ἐγκαίνια]], ἄζυμα, [[γενέσια]], or by the Chaldaic [[form]] שַׁבָּתָא (Winer's Grammar, 177 (167); Buttmann, 23 (21))): [[τήν]] ἑβδόμην σάββατα καλουμεν, Josephus, Antiquities 3,6, 6; [[add]], 1,1, 1; (14,10, 25; [[Philo]] de Abrah. § 5; de cherub. § 26; [[Plutarch]], de superstitione 8); [[τήν]] τῶν σαββάτων ἑορτήν, [[Plutarch]], symp. 4,6, 2; hodie tricesima sabbata, Horace sat. 1,9, 69; [[nowhere]] so used by John [[except]] in the [[phrase]] [[μία]] τῶν σαββάτων, on [[which]] [[see]] 2below); ἡ [[ἡμέρα]] τῶν σαββάτων, τοῖς σάββασιν and ἐν τοῖς σάββασιν (so [[constantly]] ([[except]] Lachmann in σαββάτοις, cf. Winer's Grammar, 63 (62); (Buttmann, 23 (21))) on the sabbath-[[day]]: R G L marginal [[reading]]) (Sept. uses the [[form]] σαββάτοις, and Josephus [[both]] forms). On the precepts of the Jews [[with]] [[regard]] to the [[observance]] of the sabbath, [[which]] were for the [[most]] [[part]] [[extremely]] [[punctilious]] and [[minute]], cf. Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]] Sabbath; Oehler in Herzog xiii. 192ff (revised by Orelli in edition 2vol. xiii. 156ff); Schürer, Zeitgesch. 2te Aufl. § 28 II.; Mangold in Schenkel [[see]], p. 123 f; (BB. DD., Sabbath> [[under]] the [[word]]; Geikie, Life and Words of Christ, [[chapter]] xxxviii. vol. ii: p. 95ff; Farrar, Life of Christ, [[chapter]] xxxi. vol. i., p. 432 f; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, vol. ii., p. 56ff and Appendix, xvii.).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[seven]] days, a week: πρώτη σαββάτου, [[δίς]] τοῦ σαββάτου, [[twice]] in the week, ἡ [[μία]] τῶν σαββάτων, the [[first]] [[day]] of the week ([[see]] [[εἷς]], 5) (Prof. [[Sophocles]] regards the genitive ([[dependent]] on [[ἡμέρα]]) in [[such]] examples as those [[that]] [[follow]] (cf. [[μετά]] [[with]] an accusative, the [[first]] [[day]] [[after]] the sabbath; [[see]] his Lex., p. 43par. 6): [[κατά]] μίαν σαββάτων (L T Tr WH σαββάτου), on the [[first]] [[day]] of [[every]] week, 1 Corinthians 16:2.