Shabtai (given name)

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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.

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

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