I saw a video yesterday where someone was saying the Sabbath isn't Sunday. I looked up the word origin and it means "to rest." I guess that means we can work any of the seven days, but we just have to rest on one of them. Which means Sabbath can be any day. Right?
Old English, from Latin sabbatum, via Greek from Hebrew šabbāṯ, from šāḇaṯ ‘to rest.’
However, it may only mean just the word "rest" because I found this Bible quote with Sabbath in it and it wasn't referring to church or resting.
Leviticus 25:6-7 - "The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food."
While looking up Sabbath, I saw a lot of Black Sabbath pictures. So, just for the fun of it, this had me looking up the word origin of black. Much to my surprise, it's the opposite of what we think of it today.
"The word ‘Black’ can be traced back to its proto Indo-European origins through the word ‘blac’ which meant pale, wan, colourless, or albino. In Old English “blac” person meant fair; someone devoid of colour, similar to the word “blanc” which still means white or fair person."
It's amazing that we have this capability to look into a word, that we use today, and see that it isn't always what we think it is.
I guess Black Sabbath actually means "fair rest" or fairest. Did Ozzie Osbourne know this? Hmmm ... maybe not. :)
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