Bible Names

Shabbethai: meaning of the name

Shabbethai means “my rest.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Shabbethai in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁבְּתַי H7678

Shabbᵉthay (shab-beth-ah'-ee) — Shabbethai, the name of three Israelites

from H7676 (שַׁבָּת); restful;

People named Shabbethai in the Bible

Shabbethai in Scripture

“Shabbethai” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Ezra 10:15

    Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

  • Nehemiah 8:7

    Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

  • Nehemiah 11:16

    And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.