שְׁבִיתָה f. (שָׁבַת) 1) resting, making a day station esp. over the Sabbath. Maasr. II, 3 עד שהוא מגיע למקום הש׳ until he reaches a place where he intends to rest, contrad. to לינה night lodging. Y. ib. 49ᵈ top, v. לִינָה.—Esp. appointing a place to be the centre of Sabbath movements, Sabbath camp (from which one is allowed to walk two thousand cubits in every direction). Erub. IV, 7 מי שבא … שְׁבִיתָתִי תחתיו if one is on the road (on Friday) at nightfall, and recognizing a tree or a fence (at a distance) says, my Sabbath rest be under it; שביתתי בעיקרו my Sabbath camp be at its root. Ib. 8 שביתתי במקומי my Sabbath centre be where I am now. Ib. 45ᵇ חפצי הפקר קונין ש׳ objects which have no owner acquire a Sabbath centre of their own (and he who finds them has to be guided in carrying them by the place where he found them). Ib. חפצי הנכרי אינן קונין ש׳ objects belonging to a gentile have no Sabbath centre, i.e. if they come from outside on the Holy Day, the recipient may carry them the distances which he himself is permitted to walk; a. fr. —2) observing the Sabbath, abstention from labor. Sabb. XVI, 6 (121ᵃ) מפני שאין שְׁבִיתָתוֹ עליך Y. ed. (Mish. a. Bab. ed. עליהן, Ms. M. עלינו) because his (the gentile’s) Sabbath rest is no concern of thine (of theirs, the Jews’ for whom he acts; of ours); ib. מפני ששביתתו עליך because his (the minor’s) observance of the Sabbath is thy (their, our) concern. Y. ib. V, 7ᵇ bot. שהוא מצוה על שְׁבִיתַת בהמתו כמוהו for man is commanded to let his cattle rest as well as himself. Y. Erub. III, 21ᵃ אינו יכול להביאו דרך ש׳ he cannot bring it home in a manner consistent with the observance of the Sabbath; a. fr. —3) = שְׁבוּת an act forbidden on the Sabbath by rabbinical law, but permissible in the Temple.—Pl. שְׁבִיתוֹת. Ib. X, end, 26ᵈ (ref. to Mish. ib. X, 11—15) משביתה אחת למדו ש׳ הרבה from the permissibility of one act, we learn the permissibility of many more, v. צַבְתָּא.