Sabbath in different languages and dialects...

[reddogs]

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

 

[Loveaboveall]

Interesting, where did you come up with the list. I would be interested in studying this further.

 

[djconklin]

Interesting, where did you come up with the list. I would be interested in studying this further.

Do a search online for "Dr. William Mead Jones." His lists about 100 different languages and if you search further, as I did, you'll find a couple more.