Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Sebat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in January and February)

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Examples

  • On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, In the night I saw a man riding on a red horse!

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Hence that axiom in Rosh Hashanah, "The first day of the month Shebat is the beginning of the year for trees, according to the school of Shammai; but, according to that of Hillel, the fifteenth day."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "R. Jonah saith, 'Let him reckon a hundred days backwards; and if the fifteenth day of the month Shebat falls within that number, then he may know when they were put forth.'"

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Half Chisleu, all Tebeth, and half Shebat was the winter.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Chisleu, whole Tebeth, and half Shebat, is the winter.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • The lateward seed, or that which is hid and lieth long in the earth; "The wheat and the spelt which do not soon ripen, are sown in Marchesvan; the early seed, the barley, which soon ripens, is sown in Shebat and Adar."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Shebat, and Adar, his circuit is over the deserts, in order to protect the seed sown from being scorched.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

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