שַׁבָּת f. (b. h.; preced.) 1) day of rest, Sabbath.—שַׁבַּת בראשית, v. בְּרֵאשִׁית. Sabb. I, 1 יציאות הש׳ the laws concerning the carrying of objects from one territory (רָשׁוּת) to another on the Sabbath, v. הוֹצָאָה. Ib. 2ᵇ הכא דעיקר ש׳ הוא here where the Sabbath law is the main subject. Ib. 10ᵇ מתנה … וש׳ שמה I have a precious gift in my treasury, its name is Sabbath. Ib. 119ᵃ תבלין … וש׳ שמו וכ׳ we (Jews) have a certain spice, its name is Sabbath, which we put into it (the Sabbath dish), and its flavor spreads, Ib. 117ᵇ בש׳ חייב אדם לבצוע וכ׳ on the Sabbath one must break bread (say the blessing) over two loaves. Ib. לעולם … להוצאת ש׳ one should always be early in making the purchases for the Sabbath. Ib. 118ᵃ עשה שַׁבַּתְּךָ וכ׳, v. צָרַךְ. Ib. 119ᵃ בואו … ש׳ המלכה come ye, and let us go forth to meet queen Sabbath. Ib.ᵇ שני … בערב ש׳ מבית וכ׳ two ministering angels escort man on the Sabbath eve from the synagogue to his house; מלאך … שתהא לש׳ אחרת כך וכ׳ the good angel says, may it be thus the next Sabbath, and the evil angel says Amen against his will. Ib. לא חרבה … את הש׳ Jerusalem was destroyed for no other reason than because they desecrated the Sabbath there. Mekh. Ki Thissa לכם ש׳ מסורה וכ׳, v. מָסַר. R. Hash. IV, 1 שחל להיות בש׳ which falls on a Sabbath day; a. v. fr.—Ber. 28ᵃ, a. e. ש׳ של מי היתה whose Sabbath was it, i.e. whose turn to preach was it?—Pl. שַׁבָּתוֹת. Sabb. l. c. אילמלי … שתי ש׳ וכ׳ if Israel were to observe two Sabbaths properly, they would at once be redeemed. Yeb. 93ᵃ ש׳ וימים טובים Sabbaths and festivals; Keth. 110ᵇ; a. v. fr. —2) week. Ned. VIII, 1 ש׳ זו אסור בכל הש׳ וש׳ שעברה (if one says on a Sabbath day, ‘I vow abstinence from wine) this Sabbath’, he is forbidden to drink wine the whole (incoming) week and the week just expiring. Men. 65ᵇ באמצע ש׳ during the week, opp. בשבת on the Sabbath day; a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Is. 66ᵃ אימתי … שבע ש׳ תמימות וכ׳ when do you find seven complete weeks (between Passover and Shabuoth)? When you begin to count from the evening. Pesik. Haʿom., p. 69ᵇ באלו שבע ש׳ וכ׳ during those seven weeks between Passover &c.; a. fr.—שַׁבָּת Sabbath, name of a treatise, of the Order of Moʿed, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli and Y’rushalmi.