Shabbath Around the World

Copied and adapted from the article "SabbathLang.html" found on "www.amethystministries.org" and titled "The word Sabbath in world languages."

The True Shabbath Found in the Languages of the World
Indisputable proof that the seventh day scriptural shabbath was not, and is not, exclusively "Yahudiyth."

Dr. William Meade Jones lived over a hundred and fifty years ago and was a well-known research expert in London England. He discovered in his studies that the seventh-day shabbath was the only weekly shabbath ever commanded by Yahuwah in scripture.

Jones decided that since scripture clearly shows that the shabbath was first given to mankind at the end of the Creation Week (B'ereshiyth [Genesis] 2:1-3) then two important facts would have had to be known throughout the ancient world. First, a fixing of the seven-day weekly cycle on a world-wide basis, and second, an ancient world-wide knowledge of the seventh-day shabbath.

Jones was convinced of this for several reasons:

1. Adam and Noach were earnest worshipers of Yahuwah and were faithful shabbath keepers. (B'ereshiyth 6:9,7:5)
2. They would have taught their descendents about the shabbath and its sacredness.
3. The truth that mankind is to rest on the seventh day of each week requires a seven-day week, even though they may have later turned to idols and left the commandments of the True Eloah.
4. As the descendents of Adam and Noach spread out all over the world, they would have carried with them the seven-day week and the seventh day sacred shabbath given by Yahuwah to mankind.

Many of Adam's and Noach's descendents became scoffers. However, Jones reasoned, that they would still carry with them the twin truths of the Creation Week of B'ereshiyth 1 by their keeping of the seven-day weekly cycle and the seventh day shabbath by naming the seventh day of the week in their language as the day of shabbath rest.

William Mead Jones decided to research a majority of the languages of the world to see if his reasonings were true. The results of his research was as he suspected and is another powerful proof not only that the seventh day is the true shabbath of Yahuwah but also that the creation account in B'ereshiyth 1 and 2 is accurate and that Yahuwah is our Creator!

Chart of the Week (showing the position of Yahuwah's Sacred shabbath)

LANGUAGE (Where spoken, read, or otherwise used)	1	2	3	4	5	6	Name of the SEVENTH DAY
Shemitic Ibriy (Hebrew) Tanakh world-wide	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day the Sixth	Yom hash-shab-bath Day the shabbath
Ibriy (ancient & modern)	One into the shabbath	Second into the shabbath	Third into the shabbath	Fourth into the shabbath	Fifth into the shabbath	Eve of Sacred shabbath	Shab-bath shabbath
Targum of Onkelos (Ibriy Literature)	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day the Sixth	Yom hash-shab-bath Day the shabbath
Targum Dialect of the Yahudiym (Jews) in Kurdistan	Day One of the Seven	Day 2nd of the Seven	Day 3rd of the Seven	Day 4th of the Seven	Day 5th of the Seven	Day of Eve (of shabbath)	yoy-met sha-bat kodesh Sacred Shabbath Day
Ancient Syriac *Each day proceeds on, and belongs to the shabbath	One into shabbath	Two into shabbath	Three into shabbath	Four into shabbath	Five into shabbath	Eve (of shabbath)	Shab-ba-tho shabbath
Kasdiy (Chaldee) Syriac Kurdistan & Urdmia, Persia	One into shabbath	Two into shabbath	Three into shabbath	Four into shabbath	Five into shabbath	Eve (of shabbath)	Shap-ta shabbath
Shomerowniy (Samaritan) (Old Hebrew Letters) Nablus, Palestine	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day Sixth	Shab-bath shabbath
Babel (Babylonian) Euphrates & Tigris Valleys Mesopotamia (written language, 3800 B.C.)	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Sa-ba-tu shabbath
Assyrian Euphrates & Tigris Valleys, Mesopotamia	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	sa-ba-tu shabbath
Arabic (Very old names)	Business Day	Light Moon	War Chief	Turning Day or Midweek	Familiar or Society Day	Eve (of shabbath)	Shi-yar Chief or Rejoicing Day
Arabic (ancient & modern) Western Asia, E.,W., & N. Africa	The One	The Two	The Three	The Four	The Fifth	Assembly (day, Muham)	as-sabt The shabbath
Maltese Malta	One (day)	Two (and day)	The 3 (3rd day)	The 4 (4th day)	Fifth (day)	Assembly	Is-sibt The shabbath
Ge-ez or Kuwshiy (Ethiopic) Abyssinia (Ge-ez signifies "original")	One (day)	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of shabbath)	san-bat shabbath
Tigre Abyssinia (closely related to Ge-ez)	One (First day)	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of shabbath)	san-bat shabbath
Amharic Abyssinia (nearly related to Ge-ez)	One	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of shabbath)	san-bat shabbath
Falasha (language of the Yahuhdiym of Abyssinia)	One	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	yini sanbat The shabbath
Coptic Egypt (a dead language for 200 years)	The First Day	The 2nd Day	The 3rd Day	The 4th Day	The 5th Day	The 6th Day	pi sabbaton The shabbath
Orma or Galla South of Abyssinia (this language has two sets of names, the first being the oldest)	Lady, Virgin Mary Day. Great or Festival shabbath	Second day. First Trade Day	3rd Day to the shabbath. Second Trade Day	4th day to the shabbath. Fourth (day)	Fifth (day)	Assembly (day)	Last day of the half-week, inclusive of 4th day. Little or Humble or Solemn shabbath (a day of no ceremonial display nor work)
Tamashek or Towarek (from ancient Lybian or Numidian) Atlas Mountains, Africa.	First day	Second day	Third day	Fourth day	Fifth day	Assembly Day	a-hal es-sabt The shabbath Day
Kabyle or Berber (ancient Numidian) North Africa	Day the One (First)	Day the Two (2nd)	Day the Three (3rd)	Day the Four (4th)	Day the Fifth	The Assembly Day	ghas or wars assebt The shabbath Day
Hausa (Central Africa)	The One (1st)	The Two (2nd)	The Three (3rd)	The Four (4th)	The Fifth	The Assembly	assebatu The shabbath
Urdu or Hindustani (Muhammadan & Hindu, India; two names for the days)	One to shabbath. Sunday	2nd to shabbath. Moon-day	3rd to shabbath. Mars	4th to shabbath. Mercury	5th to shabbath. (Eve of Juma)	Assembly (day)	shamba - shabbath sanichar - Saturn
Pashto or Afghan Afghanistan	One to shabbath	Two to shabbath	Three to shabbath	Four to shabbath	Five to shabbath	Assembly (day)	khali - Unemployed-day Shamba - shabbath

The table above includes some of the oldest languages known to man. One of these, the Babylonian language, was in use hundreds of years before Abraham. That language designated the seventh day of the week as "sa-ba-tu," meaning rest day -- indisputable proof that Yahuwah's sacred shabbath as given in scripture was not, and is not, exclusively Yahudiyth (Jewish).

Very few realize that the word "shabbath" and the concept of resting from work on the seventh day of the week is common to most of the ancient and modern languages of the world. This is evidence totally independent of the scriptures and confirms the teaching that Yahuwah's seventh day shabbath predates the religion of Yisra'el. The concept of a seventh day sacred rest was understood, accepted, and practiced by virtually every culture from Babel through modern times.

In the study of the many languages of mankind you will find two important facts:

1. In the majority of the principal languages the last, or seventh, day of the week is designated as "shabbath."

2. There is not even one language which designates another day as the "day of rest."

From these facts we may conclude that not only those people who called the last day of the week "shabbath," but all other peoples and races, as far as they recognized any day of the week as "shabbath," rested on the seventh day. In fact, it was recorded by the great historian, Socrates, that in his time the whole known world, with the exception of Rome and Alexandria, observed the seventh day of the week.

"The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the shabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria."

Socrates, "Ecclesiastical History", Book 7, Chap.19

Another interesting fact is that the words in the original languages that are used to designate the seventh day of the week as the shabbath have continued to be very similar while the other words have been so changed over time that they are unintelligible to people of other language groups. This is another proof that the shabbath and the words used to designate the seventh day of the week as the "shabbath day" originated at Creation in complete harmony with the scriptural record found in B'ereshiyth 2:1-3.

Language List

Language	Word for 7th Day	Meaning
Greek Latin (Italy) Spanish (Spain) Portuguese (Portugal) Italian (Italy) French (France) High German (Germany) Prussian (Prussia) Russian (Russia) Polish Hebrew Afaghan Hindustani Persian Arabic Turkish Malay Abyssinian Lusatian (Saxony) Bohemian Bulgarian (Bulgaria) New Slovenian (Illyria, in Austria) Illyrian (Dalmatia, Servia) Wallachian (Roumania or Wallachia) Roman (Sapin, Catalonia) Ecclesiastical Roman (Italy) D'oc. French (ancient & modern) Norman French (10th-11th Centuries) Wolof (Senegambia, West Africa) Congo (West Equatorial Africa) Orma (South of Abyssiania) Kazani - TARTAR (East Russia) Osmanlian (Turkey) Arabic (very old names) Ancient Syriac Chaldee Syriac (Kurdistan,Urumia,Persia) Babylonian Syriac (a very old language) Maltese (Malta) Ethiopic (Abyssinia) Coptic (Egypt) Tamashek (Atlas Mountains, Africa) Kabyle (North Africa, ancient Numidan) Hausa (Central Africa) Pasto (Afghanistan) Pahlivi (ancient Persian) Persian (Persia) Armenian (Armenia) Kurdish (Kurdistan) Miscellaneous Middle Age Languages Georgian (Caucasus) Suanian (Caucasus) Ingoush (Caucasus) Malayan (Malaya, Sumatra) Javanese (Java) Dayak (Borneo) Makassar (S. Celebes & Salayer Islands) Malagassy (Madagascar) Swahili (E. equatorial Africa) Mandingo (W. Africa, S. of Senegal) Teda (Central Africa) Bornu (Central Africa) Logone (Central Africa) Bagrimma (Central Africa) Maba (Central Africa) Permian (Russian) Votiak (Russian)	Sabbaton Sabbatum S�bado Sabbado Sabbato Samedi Samstag Sabatico Subbota Sobota shabbath Shamba Shamba Shambin Assabt Yomessabt Ari-Sabtu Sanbat Sobota Sobota Subbota Sobota Subota Sambata Dissapte Sabbatum Dissata Sabbedi Alere-Asser Sabbado or Kiansbula Zam-ba-da Subbota Yome-es-sabt Shi-yar Shab-ba-tho Shaptu Sa-Ba-tu Is-sibt San-bat Pi sabbaton A-hal es-sabt Ghas assebt Assebatu Shamba Shambid Shambah Shapat Shamba Shabati Sammtyn Shatt Hari sabtu Saptoe or saptu Sabtu Sattu Alsabotsy As-sabt Sibiti Essebdu Assebdu Se-sibde Sibbedi Sab Subota Subbota	shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath day shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath The shabbath Day shabbath Day shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath Day shabbath shabbath Day shabbath shabbath Day Last Day shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath day of the shabbath Chief or rejoicing day shabbath shabbath shabbath the shabbath shabbath the shabbath the shabbath the shabbath day the shabbath shabbath (pleasantest day of the week) shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath day shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath The shabbath The shabbath shabbath The shabbath The shabbath The shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath shabbath