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Dictionary of Biblical Words
:
This
was
the
day
of
rest
instituted by
God
in Gen. 2, hence before the Jewish
law
, and thus belonging to
man
at large. The Jewish
Sabbath
under the law, was surrounded
with
the strictest rules, to
prevent
its sanctity and rest being brokers (Ex. 20:10; {vi 12581;12691}Neh. 10:31; 13:19); and those who transgressed it were rigorously punished (Ex. 16:27; Num. 15:32). When the
Lord
of the Sabbath (Mark 2:28) carne, he showed that
sin
having
come
in,
there
was no longer any rest
for
Him
who, as
Creator
(Col. 1.) had rested in Gen. 2 He must finish the
work
He was sent to do (Matt. 12:12; Luke 13:16). After the
resurrection
, the Sabbath gradually ceased to be observed by Christians as far as its legal enactments, which passed away with the Jewish
religion
they
belonged to. In
place
of the Sabbath however, still carrying out the
divine
principle of one day in the
seven
being
set
apart from worldly affairs, the first (instead of the last) day of the week was observed as the Lord’s day, being the day on which
Christ
rose
from the dead. On this day the disciples
used
to assemble to
break
bread
(not on the first of the
month
or
year
), Acts 20:7. The Lord’s day, however, is not a day of rest in the sense the Sabbath was; on the contrary, it is
often
a day of hard toil’ but always in the Lord’s service. For
the
world
at large, it is a
merciful
and
wise
provision, that God has led governments to enact the public observance of this day in a general way, as a day of rest. For although the injunction for this cannot be found in
Scripture
, the principle is clearly embodied in Gen. 2 and Mark 2:27, that the Sabbath was instituted for the benefit of man at large; and now, Judaism having passed away, the Lord’s day is observed instead.
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(
rest
). Rest
day
, the seventh day of the week ({vi 33-34}Gen. 2:2-3). Under the
Law
given to
Israel
through
Moses
, it was to be kept as a day of rest ({vi 1971-1978;2060-2063}Ex. 16:23-30; 20:8-11; {vi 3285;3312;3406;3474-3479}Lev. 19:3,30; 23:3; 25:4-9; {vi 5066-5069}Deut. 5:12-15). Day for consulting prophets (2 Kings 4:23). A day of
teaching
and
joy
({vi 12495-12506}Neh. 8:1-12; Hos. 2:11). A whole week of
time
is implied (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:2). The first-day of the week, the
resurrection
day of Christ, is called “the
Lord
’s Day” (John 20:26; {vi 27633-27638}Acts 20:6-11; 1 Cor. 16:2; Rev. 1:10).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The first
time
the Sabbath is specifically mentioned in
scripture
is in Exodus 16:23, after the
manna
had been given from
heaven
; but the Sabbath clearly had its origin in the
sanctification
and
blessing
of the seventh
day
after the
six
days of creative work. And a hebdomadal division of days apparently existed up to
the flood
, since it is very distinctly mentioned in connection with
Noah
. We are also told in Mark 2:27 that the Sabbath was made for
man
. It was an institution which expressed
God
’s merciful consideration for man.
The words “
rest
” and “sabbath” in the
passage
in Exodus have no article, so that the sentence may be translated “Tomorrow is [a] rest, [a] holy Sabbath unto the
Lord
.” So in {vi 1973-1974}Exodus 16:25-26 there is no article: there is in Exodus 16:29. The Sabbath was soon after definitely enacted in
the
ten
commandments ({vi 2060-2063}Ex. 20:8-11), and reference is there made to God having rested on the
seventh
day after the work of
creation
as the basis of the institution.
The Sabbath had a peculiar place in relation to
Israel
: thus in Leviticus 23, in the
feasts
of
Jehovah
, in the holy convocations, the Sabbath of Jehovah is first mentioned as showing the great intention of God. God had delivered Israel out of the slavery of
Egypt
,
therefore
God commanded them to keep the Sabbath (Deut. 5:15). The Sabbath was the sign of God’s
covenant
with them, and it may be that the Lord in repeatedly offending the Jews by (in their view) breaking the Sabbath by acts of
mercy
foreshadowed the approaching dissolution of the legal covenant ({vi 2434;2438}Ex. 31:13, 17; {vi 20908;20916}Ezek. 20:12,20). The Sabbath foreshadowed their being brought into the rest of God; but, because of the
sin
of those who started to go thither (who despised the promised land), God sware in His
wrath
that they should not enter into His rest (Psa. 95:11). God has purposed to bring His people into His rest, for whom there remains therefore the keeping of a Sabbath (Heb. 4:9).
The Sabbath was never given to the nations in the same way as to Israel, and amid all the sins enumerated against the
Gentiles
, we do not find Sabbath-breaking ever mentioned. Nevertheless, it appears to be a principle of God’s government of the
earth
that man and
beast
should have one day in
seven
as a respite from labor, all needing it physically.
The
Christian
’s Sabbath is designated the LORD’S DAY—and is as distinct in principle from the Jewish legal Sabbath as the opening, or first day of a
new
week is from the close of a past one. The Lord lay in
death
on the Jewish Sabbath: the Christian keeps the first day of the week, the
resurrection
day. See LORD’S DAY.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
7676
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
shabbath
Phonic:
shab-bawth’
Meaning:
intensive from
7673
; intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath
KJV Usage:
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