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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #7627 - שְׁבָט

Transliteration

Shᵉbâṭ

Phonetics

sheb-awt'

Origin

of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Sebat = "a rod"
1. 11th month in the post-exilic Jewish calendar corresponding to Jan or Feb

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Zechariah 1

BSB (1)

Zechariah 1

CSB (1)

Zechariah 1

ESV (1)

Zechariah 1

KJV (1)

Zechariah 1

LEB (1)

Zechariah 1

LSB (1)

Zechariah 1

N95 (1)

Zechariah 1

NAS (1)

Zechariah 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Zechariah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

שְׁבָט proper name, month Shebat, 11th month (post-exilic) = Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian Šabâ‰u (COT^{Nehemiah 1:1} Dl^WB), Zechariah 1:7 (derived from šabâ‰u, strike, kill destroy (Dl^{Prol 38}; WB), Lyon^{Bib Sacr Apr. (1884), 384} Jen^{ZA iv (1889), 273} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi (1892) 171f.} and others, as month of destroying rain; another conjecture in Zim^{KAT 3. 594 n}; this month called שבט also in Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb SAC¹¹¹)

שְׁבִי, שִׁבְיָה, שְׁבִית see שׁבה.

שׁבל (√ of following; compare Arabic IV. cause to hang down, flowing dress; Assyrian šubultu, sunbultu (Meissn), Arabic , (Ba^{NB 207}), Ethiopic Aramaic שֻׁבַלְתָּא , all ear of grain).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

שְׁבָט [Shebat] the eleventh month of the Hebrew year, from the new moon of February to that of March, Zechariah 1:7. Syr. ܫܒܳܛ, Arab. سُبَاطُ and شُبَاطُ id.

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List of Word Forms

שְׁבָ֔ט שבט šə·ḇāṭ šəḇāṭ sheVat