Shabtai (Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, Shabsai, etc. he, שבתאי or שבתי) is a
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
masculine name
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According to ''
Encyclopaedia Biblica
''Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible'' (1899), edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia ...
'', as the name stands, it might mean one born on the
Sabbath
In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath () or Shabbat (from Hebrew ) is a day set aside for rest and worship. According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest, as G ...
. Most probably, however, the name is a modification of the ethnic Zephathi, 'Zephathite' (such as Zarephathi and Zarephatite). A Babylonian name Šabbatâ'a has been reported from
Nippur
Nippur (Sumerian language, Sumerian: ''Nibru'', often logogram, logographically recorded as , EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory': Vol. 1, Part 1. Accessed 15 Dec 2010. Akkadian language, Akkadian: '' ...
Shabbethai Bass Shabbethai ben Joseph Bass (1641–1718) ( he, שבתי בן יוסף; also known by the family-name Strom), born at Kalisz, was the founder of Jewish bibliography, and author of the ''Siftei Chachamim'' supercommentary on Rashi's commentary on the ...
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Shabbethai Donnolo
Shabbethai Donnolo (913 – c. 982, he, שבתי דונולו) was a Graeco-Italian Jewish physician, and writer on medicine and astrology. Biography
Donnolo was born at Oria, Apulia. When twelve years of age ( July 4 925), he was made prisone ...
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Shabbatai HaKohen
Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen ( he, שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the ''Shakh'' ( he, ש"ך), which is an abbreviation of his most important work, ''Siftei Kohen'' ...
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Shabbethai Horowitz
Shabtai Horowitz ( he, שבתי הורוויץ; 1590 – 12 April 1660) was a rabbi and talmudist, probably born in Ostroh, Volhynia. He was the son of the kabbalist Isaiah Horowitz, and at an early age married the daughter of the wealthy and s ...
Joseph Shabbethai Farhi
Joseph Shabbethai Farhi (1802–1882) was a Talmud
The Talmud (; he, , Talmūḏ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law ('' halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, ...
Shabsai
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Shabsai Frankel Shabsai Frankel (August 13, 1909 – September 30, 2000) was a rabbi, businessman, philanthropist, and publisher of Torah books.Shabsa Mashkautsan (1924–2022), Soviet soldier,
Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
Shabtai
* Shabbethai, one or more biblical figures
* Shabtai Ambron (), astronomer
* Shabtai Bass (1641–1718), father of Jewish bibliography, and author
*Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham, Hebrew name of
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...
(born 1941), American singer
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Shabbethai ben Meïr ha-Kohen
Shabbatai ben Meir HaKohen ( he, שבתי בן מאיר הכהן; 1621–1662) was a noted 17th century talmudist and halakhist. He became known as the ''Shakh'' ( he, ש"ך), which is an abbreviation of his most important work, ''Siftei Kohen'' ...
(1621–62), the "Shach", a noted talmudist and halakhist
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Shabtai Daniel
Shabtai Daniel ( he, שבתאי דניאל, born Shabtai Don-Yichye in 1909, died 19 December 1981) was an Israeli journalist and politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party in 1965.
Biography
Born i ...
(1909–81), Israeli journalist and politician
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Shabtai Horowitz
Shabtai Horowitz ( he, שבתי הורוויץ; 1590 – 12 April 1660) was a rabbi and talmudist, probably born in Ostroh, Volhynia. He was the son of the kabbalist Isaiah Horowitz, and at an early age married the daughter of the wealthy and s ...
(c. 1590–1660), rabbi and talmudist
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Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz
Shabtai Sheftel ben Akiva ha-Levi Horowitz (; 1565–1619) was a kabbalistic author, who flourished in Prague in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His father, named Akiba according to Steinschneider and Benjacob, not Jacob, was the son of ...
(1565–1619), kabbalistic author
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Shabtai Kalmanovich
Shabtai Kalmanovich ( he, שבתאי קלמנוביץ', lt, Šabtajus Kalmanovičius, russian: Шабтай Генрихович Калманович; 18 December 1947 – November 2, 2009), alternatively spelled Shabtai Kalmanovic,Shabtai Levy
Shabtai Levy (1876–1956) was the first Jewish mayor of Haifa. He held office from 1941 to 1951.
Biography
Shabtai Levy was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1876. Trained as a lawyer, he made Aliyah in 1894. He studied in the Palestine Jewish ...
(1876–1956), Israeli mayor of Haifa
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Shabtai Rosenne
Shabtai Rosenne (Hebrew: שבתאי רוזן) (24 November 1917 – 21 September 2010) was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal f ...
(1917–2010), Israeli professor and diplomat
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Shabtai Shavit
Shabtai Shavit ( he, שבתי שביט; born 17 July 1939) is a former director general of the Israeli Mossad from 1989 to 1996.
Biography
Shavit first joined the Israeli Navy, where he later went on to serve in the Sayeret Matkal. From 1978 to ...
(born 1941), Israeli Director General of the Mossad
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Shabtai Shikhman
Shabtai Shikhman (; 10 September 1915 – 9 January 1987) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Herut and Gahal between 1959 and 1965.
Biography
Born in an area that became Poland, Shikhman joined the Betar youth m ...
(1915–87), Israeli politician
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Shabtai Teveth
Shabtai Teveth (1925 – 1 November 2014) was an Israeli historian and author.
Teveth was born in 1925 and grew up in the worker' quarters at the Migdal Tzedek quarry, where his father worked, near Petah Tikva. He began working as a journalist f ...
(born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
* Shabtai Zvi, (1626–76), Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the Jewish Messiah, gaining many adherents, until his conversion to Islam