Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #7627 - שְׁבָט Shebat

Original Word:	שְׁבָט
Transliteration:	Shebat
Phonetic Spelling:	(sheb-awt')
Definition:	eleventh month in the Jewish calendar
Part of Speech:	Noun
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Sebat

Of foreign origin; Shebat, a Jewish month -- Sebat.

Englishman's Concordance

Sebat=“a rod”
1) 11th month in the post-exilic Jewish calendar corresponding to Jan or Feb
Part of Speech: noun proper
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of foreign origin

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׁבָטproper name, monthShebat, 11th month (post-exilic)=Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian Šabâ‰u (COT^{Nehemiah 1:1} Dl^WB), Zechariah 1:7 (derived from šabâ‰u, strike, kill destroy (Dl^{Prol 38}; WB), Lyon^{Bib Sacr Apr. (1884), 384} Jen^{ZA iv (1889), 273} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi (1892) 171 f.} and others, as month of destroying rain; another conjecture in Zim^{KAT 3. 594 n}; this month called שבט also in Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb SAC¹¹¹)

שְׁבִי, שִׁבְיָה, שְׁבִית see שׁבה.

שׁבל (√ of following; compare Arabic IV. cause to hang down, flowing dress; Assyrian šubultu, sunbultu (Meissn), Arabic , (Ba^{NB 207}), Ethiopic Aramaic שֻׁבַלְתָּא, all ear of grain).