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title: שֶׁבֶת — cessation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׁבֶת (7674), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: cessation. BDB 1906: n.f. cessation. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׁבֶת

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«שֶׁבֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cessation** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 7674 · **BDB:** שֶׁ֫בֶת²

### Glosses

a.sitting.still (1); cessation (1); down (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cessation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7674/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. cessation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7674/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cessation (dub.) Pr 20:3 (c. מֵרִיב, 𝔊 ἀποστρέφεσθαι = שׁוּב); שִׁבְתּוֹ Ex 21:19 i.e. from work = his loss of time (but Di i. שֶׁבֶת, p. 443 f.).—Is 30:7 perhaps = a sitting still (indolently) √ ישׁב, but prob. crpt., v. Du Che al.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׁבֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7674/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.63/)

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שִׁבְתָּ֤ם וְקִֽימָתָם֙ הַבִּ֔יטָה אֲנִ֖י מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* down their.sitting and their.rising up look at I mocking.song \[am\].their

*JPS 1917:* Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

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[Proverbs 20:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.3/)

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כָּב֣וֹד לָ֭אִישׁ שֶׁ֣בֶת מֵרִ֑יב וְכָל־אֱ֝וִ֗יל יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].honor to (the) person cessation from strife and every fool he.breaks.out

*JPS 1917:* It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be snarling.

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