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title: שְׁבָט — Sebat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁבָט (7627), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sebat. BDB 1906: n.pr. mens. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁבָט

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«שְׁבָט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sebat** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7627 · **BDB:** שְׁבָט

### Glosses

of.Shebat (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sebat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7627/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr. mens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7627/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. mens. Shebāṭ, 11th month (post-ex.) = Feb.–March; loan-word from Bab. Šabâṭu (COT Ne 1(×2) DlWB), Zc 1:7 (der. from šabâṭu, strike, kill, destroy (DlProl. 38; WB), Lyon Bib. Sacr. Apr. 1884, 384 JenZA iv (1889), 273 Muss-ArnJBL xi (1892), 171 f. al., as month of destroying rain; another conjecture in ZimKAT 3. 594 n.; this month called שבט also in Nab. Palm., v. Lzb SAC 111).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁבָט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7627/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 1:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.1.7/)

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בְּיוֹם֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֜ה לְעַשְׁתֵּֽי־עָשָׂ֥ר חֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ הוּא־חֹ֣דֶשׁ שְׁבָ֔ט בִּשְׁנַ֥ת שְׁתַּ֖יִם לְדָרְיָ֑וֶשׁ הָיָ֣ה דְבַר־יְהוָ֗ה אֶל־זְכַרְיָה֙ בֶּן־בֶּ֣רֶכְיָ֔הוּ בֶּן־עִדּ֥וֹא הַנָּבִ֖יא לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* on day twenty and four of one.plus ten month it \[was\].the.month of.Shebat in year two of Darius it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Zechariah the.son of.Berekiah the.son of.Iddo the prophet (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying —

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