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Nehemiah 11:16
“And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
שַׁבְּתַיShabbᵉthay · shab-beth-ah'-ee
H7678 · Hebrew
H7678 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Shabbethai, the name of three Israelites
- Derivation
- from H7676 (שַׁבָּת); restful;
- KJV renderings
- Shabbethai.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שַׁבְּתַ֨י — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 3 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ezra 10:15Nehemiah 8:7
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שַׁבְּתַי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.