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/ˈsabəTH/,
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sabbaths, plural;
  1. A day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday

  2. A supposed annual midnight meeting of witches with the Devil

  1. a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims
  2. Sabbath or a sabbath is generally a weekly day of rest and/or time of worship observed in Abrahamic religions and other practices. Many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia. ...
  3. Black Sabbath are an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). ...
  4. Sabbath in Christianity is a weekly day of rest or related occasion, derived from Biblical Sabbath (shabbâth, , meaning intensive "repose").
  5. Sabbath is the name of a recurring villain from the Eighth Doctor Adventures -- spin-off novels based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. The character was created by Lawrence Miles and first appeared in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street. ...
  6. Shabbat (Ashkenazi pronunciation: Shabbos, Yiddish: Shabbes, "rest" or "cessation") is the seventh day of the Jewish week and a day of rest in Judaism. ...
  7. Shabbat (שבת) is first tractate (book) in the Order (Mishnaic section) of Moed, of the Mishnah and Talmud. The tractate consists of 24 chapters.
  8. The Biblical seventh day of the week, observed as a day of rest in Judaism, Seventh-day Adventism, or Seventh Day Baptism, starting at sundown on Friday till sundown on Saturday; Sunday, observed throughout the majority of Christianity as a day of rest; Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest ...
  9. The verb form of this word is shavat ^[str:7673] and literally means to cease or stop. It is first used in Genesis 2:2 where God "ceased" from his work. As ceasing from work is associated with resting some translate shavat as "rest. ...
  10. (fundamental belief 20)—the Sabbath should be observed on the seventh day of the week, specifically, from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
  11. A day of rest and spiritual enrichment. See Shabbat; Shabbat Evening Home Ritual; Havdalah Home Ritual.
  12. ( Hebrew shabbath , cessation, rest; Greek Sabbaton ; Latin Sabbatum ). ...
  13. The day of rest for Protestants in New England was usually Sunday. Keeping the Sabbath was an important mark of the convert’s transformation both on Martha’s Vineyard and on the Puritan mainland. ...
  14. A carwash for Swedish autos. - Joseph Leff
  15. According to the first chapter of Genesis, God created the world in six days and on the seventh he rested. Therefore, Judaism holds that the seventh day is a holy day, and on it no profane work should be done. The sabbath starts at sundown Friday evening and lasts to sundown on Saturday. ...
  16. The Jewish holy day, from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. Also used by some Christian denominations for Sunday.
  17. (Ex. xx. 10; Deut. v. 14), marked by the cessation of all labor (Amos viii. 15), regarded as a day of joy (Hosea ii. 13), and observed with offerings to Yhwh (Isa. i. 13; Ezek. xlvi. 4). See Sabbath.
  18. The Jewish Sabbath day of rest, welcomed into the home on Friday evening and ending on sunset on Saturday.
  19. a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
  20. actually the Jewish day of rest and religious holiday (Saturday), but in Trakl's youthful poem it is cloaked in the meaning of a witches' celebration. [Bequest: Sabbat]
  21. The Sabbath or seventh "day," on which God rested after the work of the "six days" of creation was completed, as recounted in the opening narrative of the Bible. Creation is thus ordered to the Sabbath, the day to be kept holy to the praise and worship of God. ...
  22. n. The day of rest which LDS observe by waking up early, spending three hours in church, unwillingly visiting others, and otherwise fulfilling callings.
  23. one of the Eight festivals or high holy days of Wicca.
  24. In Judaic tradition, a sacred day of complete rest, celebrating the day the Creator rested after making the earth.  Ordinarily, the Sabbath occurs every seven days.
  25. Sunday. On Sunday they are not to work (even around the house), shop, go to the movies, or engage in sports. They are to attend church meetings, rest, visit with family or sick, read inspirational literature.