Shabbat

[shah-baht]

noun

Hebrew.

1. Sabbath.

Shabbat

/ ʃɑːˈbɑːt, ˈʃɑːbəs /

noun

1. Judaism another word for the Sabbath

Word History and Origins

Origin of Shabbat¹

from Hebrew shabbāth; see _Sabbath

Example Sentences

My friend Lloyd the lawyer, in his sixties, cited three special objects of gratitude this year: old college friends who show how they care through their candor, his Shabbat morning bible study group—“they are sharp, warm and skeptical”—and what happens when he walks the dogs each day just before dawn on the Westchester shore.

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In Pittsburgh the next year a shooter attacked the Tree of Life synagogue during Shabbat services, killing 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.

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On his first evening home after being released from the hospital following the amputation, Sonnier, who was raised Catholic, was attending his family’s regular Friday night Shabbat dinner when he decided during an emotional moment to follow through on his long-delayed intention to convert to Judaism.

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“We gather around the table once a week, but it’s Shabbat dinner. I was living a Jewish lifestyle but had not taken the steps to conversion. That all changed at that dinner.”

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But it’s a Shabbat dinner, complete with Hebrew prayers over challah.

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