Lexical Summary Shebat: eleventh month in the Jewish calendar Original Word: שְׁבָטTransliteration: Shebat Phonetic Spelling: (sheb-awt') Part of Speech: Noun Short Definition: eleventh month in the Jewish calendar Meaning: eleventh month in the Jewish calendar Strong's Concordance Sebat Of foreign origin; Shebat, a Jewish month -- Sebat. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7627. Shebat שְׁבָט proper name, month Shebat, 11th month (post-exilic) = Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian Šabâ‰u (COTNehemiah 1:1 DlWB), Zechariah 1:7 (derived from šabâ‰u, strike, kill destroy (DlProl 38; WB), LyonBib Sacr Apr. (1884), 384 JenZA iv (1889), 273 Muss-ArnJBL xi (1892) 171 f. and others, as month of destroying rain; another conjecture in ZimKAT 3. 594 n; this month called שבט also in Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb SAC111) שְׁבִית שִׁבְיָה, שְׁבִי, see שׁבה. שׁבל (√ of following; compare Arabic IV. cause to hang down, flowing dress; Assyrian šubultu, sunbultu (Meissn), Arabic , (BaNB 207), Ethiopic Aramaic שֻׁבַלְתָּא , all ear of grain). |
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