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Definition: Sabbath from Philip's Encyclopedia

Seventh day of the week, set aside as a sacred day of rest. For Jews, the Sabbath runs from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. Christians set aside Sunday for their Sabbath.

Sabbath

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The seventh day of the week, commanded by God in the Old Testament as a sacred day of rest after his creation of the world; in Judaism, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; in Christianity, Sunday (or, in some sects, Saturday). Keeping the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. Some Christians regard Sunday as the first day of the week but celebrate it as the Sabbath because it was said to be the day of the Resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish Sabbath reminds Jews of God's creation of the world, and also their slavery in Egypt, as it emphasizes that the choice to rest is a mark of freedom. Work is forbidden on the Sabbath day, unless the saving of life is involved. The Mishnah lists 39 melachot , or forbidden activities; cooking, carrying goods, and driving on the Sabbath are all prohibited under its laws. Housework is completed and the meals made for the Sabbath period early on Friday, to ensure a period of complete rest. Just before sunset on the Sabbath, a service is held in…
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From Book of Bible Quotations
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is…
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From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Throughout history the question has continually been posed to the Christian churches (by the Jews, as early as Trypho in his dialogue with * Justin Martyr, Dial. 10,3; and by the Seventh-day Adventists: S. Bacchiocchi, Divine Rest for Human Restlessness , Rome 1980) why they no longer celebrate the…
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From The Chambers Dictionary
(among Jews) Saturday, set apart for rest from work; (among most Christians) Sunday; sometimes also used for the Muslim day of rest, Friday; a sabbatical year of the Jews; (without cap ) a time of rest; (also sabb'at ) a witches' midnight meeting. adj of or appropriate to the Sabbath. [Heb Shabbāth…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The seventh day of the week, commanded by God in the Old Testament as a sacred day of rest after his creation of the world; in Judaism, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; in Christianity, Sunday (or, in some sects, Saturday). Keeping the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. Some Christians…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
[Heb.,=repose], in Judaism, last day of the week (Saturday), observed as a rest day for the twenty-five hours commencing with sundown on Friday. In the biblical account of creation (Gen. 1) the seventh day is set as a Sabbath to mark God's rest after his work. In Jewish law, starting with both…
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From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Protestantism
The Bible Sabbath Association is the largest North American fellowship of believers in Sabbatarianism, the belief that the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) is the proper day for Christians to set aside for worship, rather than the more commonly observed Sunday. Sabbatarianism remains a significant and…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
The holy day of rest and reflection observed each Saturday among the Jews . This custom fulfills the third of the Ten Commandments (“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”). The Sabbath commemorates the last of the seven days of Creation as described in the Book of Genesis , the day…
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From The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The practice of resting from secular work every seventh day was widely recognized in the ancient world as a peculiarity of the Jews, for whom it was grounded in a divine instruction (Exod. 20:8–11). By the Hellenistic period, the Sabbath had also become for Jews the main day for assembly in…
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From Essential Bible Dictionary
The Hebrew weekly day of rest and worship , observed on the seventh day of the week, beginning at sundown on Friday and ending at sundown on Saturday. The Sabbath was instituted at creation (Gen. 2:2 – 3) and included among the Ten Commandments (Exod. 20:8 – 11; Deut. 5:13 – 15; see…
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Full text Article Sabbath (Hebrew shābath, ‘to rest’)

From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Properly, the seventh day of the week, enjoined on the ancient Hebrews by the fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8–11) as a day of rest and worship. The Christian sunday , ‘the Lord's Day’, the first day of the week, is often inaccurately referred to as ‘the Sabbath’. For Muslims, friday is the weekly…
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