Sabbath vs Shabbos - What's the difference?
sabbath | shabbos |
The (l) seventh (l) of the (l), observed as a day of rest in (l), , starting at (l) on (l) till sundown on (l).
(l), observed throughout the majority of (l) as a day of rest.
(l), observed in (l) as a day of rest.
A meeting of , presided over by the devil. (Also: witches' sabbath or black sabbath).
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 419:
As a noun shabbos is
(judaism) a shabbat (sabbath).sabbath
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
