שְׁבָט
šəb̲āṭ

Hebrew noun
loaned from Akkadian

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning Šabāṭ (month XI)
Variants
שְׁבָט šəb̲āṭ
Edited by

Šabāṭ (month XI) month name, time interval

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

bəyôm ʿeśrîm wəʾarbāʿāh ləʿaštê-ʿāśār ḥōd̲eš hûʾ-ḥōd̲eš šəb̲āṭ bišnat̲ šətayim ləd̲ārəyāweš hāyāh d̲əb̲ar-YHWH ʾel-zək̲aryāh ben-berek̲yāhû ben-ʿiddôʾ hannāb̲îʾ lēʾmōr.

‘On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month of the second year of Darius—the month of Shebat—this word of GOD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo:’

— Zechariah 1 7

Genre: religious text


See also

šbṱŠabaṭ (month XI)

ZIZ₂ šabāṭuŠabāṭu (month XI)

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). שְׁבָט (Lemma #2555). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). שְׁבָט (Lemma #2555). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). שְׁבָט (Lemma #2555). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) שְׁבָט (Lemma #2555), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2555,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {שְׁבָט ({Lemma} #2555)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2555/},
}