Shabtai (given name)

Shabtai (Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, etc. Hebrew: שבתאי or שבתי) is a Jewish masculine name.

According to Encyclopaedia Biblica, as the name stands, it might mean one born on the Sabbath. Most probably, however, the name is a modification of the ethnic Zephathi, 'Zephathite' (such as Zarephathi and Zarephatite). A Babylonian name Šabbatâ'a has been reported from Nippur by Hilprecht.^[1]

Notable people with the name Shabtai[]

• Shabbethai, one or more biblical figures
• Shabtai Ambron (fl. early 18th century), astronomer
• Shabtai Bass (1641–1718), father of Jewish bibliography, and author
• Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham, Hebrew name of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer
• Shabbethai ben Meïr ha-Kohen (1621–62), the "Shach", a noted talmudist and halakhist
• Shabtai Daniel (1909–81), Israeli journalist and politician
• Shabtai Horowitz (c. 1590–1660), rabbi and talmudist
• Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz (1565–1619), kabbalistic author
• Shabtai Kalmanovich (1947–2009), KGB spy
• Shabtai Levy (1876–1956), Israeli mayor of Haifa
• Shabtai Rosenne (1917–2010), Israeli professor and diplomat
• Shabtai Shavit (born 1941), Israeli Director General of the Mossad
• Shabtai Shikhman (1915–87), Israeli politician
• Shabtai Teveth (born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
• Shabtai Zvi, (1626–76), Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the Jewish Messiah, gaining many adherents, until his conversion to Islam

See also[]

• Sabbatius

References[]

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