savbbaton savbbaton, sabbavtou, tov (Hebrew tB;v'), found in the N. T. only in the historical books except twice in Paul's Epistles; sabbath; i. e.:1. the seventh day of each week, which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work (; f; ); a. singular savbbaton and tov savbbaton: ; (15:42 L Tr); ; f, etc.; equivalent to the institution of the sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week: ; f; ; luvein, ; threi'n, ; hJ hJmevra tou' sabbavtou (tB;V'h' !/y, and often), the day of the sabbath, sabbath-day, ; ; oJdov" sabbavtou, a sabbath-day's journey, the distance it is lawful to travel on the sabbath-day, i. e. according to the Talmud two thousand cubits or paces, according to Epiphanius (haer. 66, 82) six stadia: , cf. (the regulation was derived from ); cf. Winer's RWB, under the word Sabbathsweg; Oehler in Herzog xiii., 203f (cf. Leyrer in Herzog edition 2 vol. ); Mangold in Sehenkel v., 127f; (Ginsburg in Alexander's Kitto under the word Sabbath Day's Journey; Lumby on (in Cambr. Bible for Schools)). as dative of time (Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 9 b.; Buttmann, sec. 133, 26): sabbavtw/, (G L T Tr WH); ; tw'/ sabbavtw/, L text T Tr WH; f; ; ; ejn sabbavtw/, ; ; (here L WH brackets ejn),23; ejn tw'/ sabbavtw/, ; , accusative tov savbbaton during (on) the sabbath (cf. Buttmann, sec. 131, 11; Winer's Grammar, sec. 32,6): ; katav pa'n savbbaton every sabbath, ; ; . plural tav savbbata, of several sabbaths, (some refer this to 2). b. plural, tav sabbavtwn (for the singular) of a single sabbath, sabbath-day (the use of the plural being occasioned either by the plural names of festivals, as tav ejgkaivnia, a[zuma, genevsia, or by the Chaldaic form at;B;v' (Winer's Grammar, 177 (167); Buttmann, 23 (21))): ; (; etc.; thvn eJbdovmhn savbbata kaloumen, Josephus, Antiquities 3, 6, 6; add, 1, 1, 1; (14, 10, 25; Philo de Abrah. sec. 5; de cherub. sec. 26; Plutarch, de superstitione 8); thvn tw'n sabbavtwn eJorthvn, Plutarch, symp. 4, 6, 2; hodie tricesima sabbata, Horace sat. 1, 9, 69; nowhere so used by John except in the phrase miva tw'n sabbavtwn, on which see 2 below); hJ hJmevra tw'n sabbavtwn, ; ; (; ; ; f); toi'" savbbasin and ejn toi'" savbbasin (so constan