Shabtai
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Shabtai (Hebrew: שַׁבְּתַאי or שַׁבְּתַי) is a Jewish masculine given name derived from the Hebrew word Shabbat, and is traditionally given to boys born on that day.[1] Alternative transliterations into English include Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, and Shabsai. It is the name of a Levite in the Tanakh,[2] and the name in Hebrew for the planet Saturn.[3] Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Shabtai Ambron (fl. early 18th century), astronomer
- Shabtai Bass (1641–1718), father of Jewish bibliography, and author
- Moses Shabbethai Beer
- Shabbethai Bass
- Shabbethai ben Meïr ha-Kohen (1621–62), the "Shach", a noted talmudist and halakhist
- Shabtai Daniel (1909–81), Israeli journalist and politician
- Shabbethai Donnolo
- Joseph Shabbethai Farhi
- Shabsai Frankel (1909–2000), rabbi, businessman, philanthropist, and publisher of Torah books
- Shabbatai HaKohen
- Shabbethai Horowitz (c. 1590–1660), rabbi and talmudist
- Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz (1565–1619), kabbalistic author
- Shabtai Kalmanovich (1947–2009), KGB spy
- Shabtai Levy (1876–1956), Israeli mayor of Haifa
- Shabsa Mashkautsan (1924–2022), Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union
- Shabbethai Nawawi (fl. 17th century), rabbi
- Shabbethai Panzieri
- Shabbethai Premsla
- Shabtai Rosenne (1917–2010), Israeli professor and diplomat
- Shabtai Shavit (born 1941), Director General of the Mossad
- Shabtai Shikhman (1915–87), Israeli politician
- Shabtai Teveth (born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
- Shabtai Zvi (1626–76), Jewish Messiah claimant and founder of the Sabbatean movement
Surname
- Aharon Shabtai (born 1939), poet and translator
- Benny Shabtai, Israeli American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
- Ḥayyim Shabbethai (1557–1647), Chief Rabbi of Salonika
- Yaakov Shabtai (1934–81), Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator
- Kobi Shabtai, 19th Commissioner of the Israel Police
See also
- Vera Shabshai (1905-1988) Soviet dancer, teacher and choreographer
- Shabtai (society), a global Jewish society of Yale University students, alumni, and current and former faculty
References
- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). "Shabbetai". A Dictionary of First Names (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-0-19-172667-5.
- ↑ Wolf, Horace J. (1915). "Shabbethai". In Orr, James (ed.). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Sela, Shlomo (November 10, 2017). "Saturn and the Jews". Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
