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sabbath

Meaning of “sabbath”

An appointed holy rest or cessation from ordinary labour; especially the seventh-day rest, or a sabbatical rest for the land.

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136 occurrences115 verses18 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 16:23

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Numbers 28:9
¶ And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 28:9 · retained source text

¶ And on the Sabbath day, two lambes of the first yeere without spot, and two tenth deales of flowre for a meate offering mingled with oyle, and the drinke offering thereof.

Numbers 28:10
This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Numbers 28:10 · retained source text

This is the burnt offring of euery Sabbath, beside the continuall burnt offering, and his drinke offering.

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Mark 2:27

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: