Shabtai (given name)
For other uses, see Shabtai (disambiguation).
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' (=Zarephathi, 'Zarephatite'). A Babylonian name Šabbatâ'a is reported from Nippur by Hilprecht.[1]
Notable people with the name Shabtai
- Shabbethai, one or more biblical figures
- 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
References
- ↑ "SHABBETHAI". Encyclopaedia Biblica. Retrieved Jul 13, 2014.
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