Sabbath - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: sabbathSabbatic
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath resembling the Sabbath enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor...
VerbarHaphtarah
One of the lessons from the Nebiim or Prophets read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths feast days fasts and the ninth of Ab at the end of the service after the parashoth or lessons from the Law Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv17 and Acts xiii15...
Observance
The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention a heeding or keeping with care performance usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity as the observance of the Sabbath is general the strict observance of duties...
Parasceve
Among the Jews the evening before the Sabbath...
Parashah
A lesson from the Torah or Law from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival...
Profanation
The act of violating sacred things or of treating them with contempt or irreverence irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred desecration as the profanation of the Sabbath the profanation of a sanctuary the profanation of the name of God...
Sabbath
A season or day of rest one day in seven appointed for rest or worship the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week which is called also Lords Day...
Sabbathless
Without Sabbath or intermission of labor hence without respite or rest...
Sabbatism
Intermission of labor as upon the Sabbath rest...
Showbread
Bread of exhibition loaves to set before God the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary They were made of fine flour unleavened and were changed every Sabbath The loaves twelve in number represented the twelve tribes of Israel They were to be eaten by the priests only and in the Holy Place...
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