שבט

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שבט¹

  • /ʃibtˤ/
  • /ˈʃeː.vɛtˤ/
  • [ˈʃeː.vɛtˤ]
  • /ˈʃe.vatˤ/
  • [ˈʃeː.vɑtˤ]
  • /ˈʃe.vetˤ/ East
  • /ˈʃe.vet/ West
  • /ˈʃe.vet/
  • /ˈʃe.vet/ Modern Israeli

Where it comes from

From Proto-Semitic *šabṭ-.

noun שֵׁבֶט · shévet · שְׁבָטִים · שִׁבְטֵי־

  1. a tribe דָּן יָדִין עַמּוֹ כְּאַחַד שִׁבְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
  2. a wand, a staff; a swatting rod. cattle prod or a shepherd's crook. גַּם כִּי אֵלֵךְ בְּגֵיא צַלְמָוֶת לֹא אִירָא רָע כִּי אַתָּה עִמָּדִי שִׁבְטְךָ וּמִשְׁעַנְתֶּךָ הֵמָּה יְנַחֲמֻנִי

    Similar: מַקֵּל, שַׁרְבִיט

  3. a troop בפינה של רחוב מלצ׳ט והחשמונאים מול הצופים (שבט קהילה) יש כמה מדרגות, שמובילות למחסן […]

Similar: מַטֶּה

שבט²

  • /ˈʃvɔːtˤ/
  • [ʃaˈvɔː.ɔtˤ]
  • /ʃəˈvɔtˤ/
  • [ʃæˈvɔːtˤ]
  • /ʃeˈvatˤ/ East
  • /ʃeˈvat/ West
  • /ˈʃvɔt/
  • /ˈʃvat/ Modern Israeli

Where it comes from

From Akkadian 𒌚𒀾 (Šabāṭum, literally “month of wheat (i.e. the start of harvest season)”).

proper noun שְׁבָט · sh'vát

  1. Judaism Shevat (the fifth month of the civil year and the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Tevet and before Adar) בְּיוֹם עֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה לְעַשְׁתֵּי־עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ הוּא־חֹדֶשׁ שְׁבָט בִּשְׁנַת שְׁתַּיִם לְדָרְיָוֶשׁ הָיָה דְבַר־יְהֹוָה אֶל־זְכַרְיָה בֶּן־בֶּרֶכְיָהוּ בֶּן־עִדּוֹא הַנָּבִיא לֵאמֹר׃

שבט³

verb שִׁבֵּט · shibét

  1. construction pi'el, misspelling defective spelling of שיבט

Thesaurus

noun

Similar: מַטֶּה

In English

  • tribe group of people
  • Shevat fifth month of civil year in the Jewish calendar

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {שבט},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%98},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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