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Title: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Reddogs on May 23, 2026, 07:04:04 AM
The word for the seventh day of the week still means rest or Sabbath in many languages. This seems to give strong evidence that the weekly Sabbath was given at Creation to all mankind. Here are a few:

Hebrew (ancient and modern) - Shab-bath = Sabbath
Ancient Syriac - Shab-ba-tho = Sabbath
Babylonian - Sa-ba-tu = Sabbath
Assyrian - Sa-ba-tu = Sabbath
Arabic (ancient and modern) - as-Sabt = The Sabbath
Maltese - Is-sibt = The Sabbath
Ge-ez or Ethiopic - San-bat = The Sabbath
Coptic (Egypt, a dead language for 200 years) - pi sabbaton = The
Sabbath
Tamashek or Towarek - a-hal es-sabt = The Sabbath day
(from ancient Lybian or Numidian, Atlas Mountains, Africa)
Hausa (Central Africa) - assebatu = The Sabbath
Greek - Savvato
Portuguese - Sabado
Romanian - Sambata
Russian - Subbota
Gothic (oldest Germanic language) - Sabbato dags
Italian - Sabato
Spanish - Sabado

When we talk with all the brothers and sisters in the Islands and Spain, Italy and South and Central America they have no problem recognizing which day is the Sabbath...
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: RabbiKnife on May 23, 2026, 08:05:25 AM
Now I can die in peace
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Fenris on May 24, 2026, 11:54:11 AM
These Sabbath posts all need to be consolidated into one thread.
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: IMINXTC on May 24, 2026, 06:22:29 PM
Always found it amazing - folks get hung up on things that never applied to them in the first place.
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: tango on May 25, 2026, 09:15:58 AM
There's even a term for it from British doom metal - Black Sabbath
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Fenris on May 25, 2026, 03:43:20 PM
The word for the seventh day of the week still means rest or Sabbath in many languages. This seems to give strong evidence that the weekly Sabbath was given at Creation to all mankind. Here are a few:
Or Jews, being both ubiquitous and impactful wherever they lived, carried both the word and the concept of a seven-day week with them wherever they went.
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Reddogs on June 03, 2026, 01:36:42 PM
There's even a term for it from British doom metal - Black Sabbath
They are heavily influence by evil entities is all I can say...
https://www.gospelcity.com.ng/2025/02/black-sabbath-and-biblical-imagery.html
To say nothing of Santana with its 'soul sacrifice'...
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Athanasius on June 03, 2026, 05:32:28 PM
There's even a term for it from British doom metal - Black Sabbath
They are heavily influence by evil entities is all I can say...
https://www.gospelcity.com.ng/2025/02/black-sabbath-and-biblical-imagery.html
To say nothing of Santana with its 'soul sacrifice'...

I take it you're not a fan of Infant Annihilator.
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Reddogs on June 27, 2026, 07:28:58 AM
There's even a term for it from British doom metal - Black Sabbath
They are heavily influence by evil entities is all I can say...
https://www.gospelcity.com.ng/2025/02/black-sabbath-and-biblical-imagery.html
To say nothing of Santana with its 'soul sacrifice'...

I take it you're not a fan of Infant Annihilator.
Not even sure you understand what you are posting..
https://www.reddit.com/r/InfantAnnihilator/comments/de6wgm/what_is_infant_annihilator_all_about_been_trying/
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Fenris on June 28, 2026, 11:21:48 AM
Not even sure you understand what you are posting..
You haven't answered my question yet.

How does one keep the Sabbath? When does it begin? When does it end?
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Athanasius on June 29, 2026, 06:55:47 AM
There's even a term for it from British doom metal - Black Sabbath
They are heavily influence by evil entities is all I can say...
https://www.gospelcity.com.ng/2025/02/black-sabbath-and-biblical-imagery.html
To say nothing of Santana with its 'soul sacrifice'...

I take it you're not a fan of Infant Annihilator.
Not even sure you understand what you are posting..
https://www.reddit.com/r/InfantAnnihilator/comments/de6wgm/what_is_infant_annihilator_all_about_been_trying/

Would you prefer Kerli's "Army of Love"? That's way worse
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Zachary on July 25, 2026, 10:06:52 PM
Not even sure you understand what you are posting..
You haven't answered my question yet.

How does one keep the Sabbath? When does it begin? When does it end?

I'm asking because it's interesting. And if I remember correct, you are the Jewish person.
Can you tell me?
I think traditionally it was the evening and morning of Saturday. And to keep it you would keep your place and do no "servile" work.
However, perhaps the precepts of Moses were for Israel alone. It was written that only Israel, God "knew", out of all the nations.
Deuteronomy 11
1Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
2And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

Jesus said that those were for the hardness of the heart of Israel. One suggestion is that while Israel was in Egypt, they were often overworked and one reason God had pity on them. And so they ought not do that thing either. And another suggestion was that God rested after creating this place, and so it was likewise to worship God in that way.
Title: Re: Sabbath in different languages and dialects...
Post by: Fenris on July 26, 2026, 01:55:17 PM
I'm asking because it's interesting. And if I remember correct, you are the Jewish person.
Can you tell me?
I'm still waiting for an answer from our local SDA member, who claims to keep the Sabbath.