Lexical Definition

‎שְׁבָט‎ Shᵉbâṭ (sheb-awt') Shebat ^N:N-M-T
of foreign origin

Sebat.

• § Sebat = "a rod"
• Shebat, a Jewish month

1) 11th month in the post-exilic Jewish calendar corresponding to Jan or Feb

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שְׁבָט‎ proper name, month Shebat, 11th month (post-exilic) = Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian Šabâ‰u (COT^{Neh 1:1} Dl^WB), Zech 1:7 (derived from šabâ‰u, strike, kill destroy (Dl^{Prol 38}; WB), Lyon^{Bib Sacr Apr. (1884), 384} Jen^{ZA iv (1889), 273} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi (1892) 171 f.} and others, as month of destroying rain; another conjecture in Zim^{KAT 3. 594 n}; this month called ‎שבט‎ also in Nabataean, Palmyrene, see Lzb SAC¹¹¹) ‎שְׁבִי‎, ‎שִׁבְיָה‎, ‎שְׁבִית‎ see ‎שׁבה‎.

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