STRONGS H7627:
Abbreviations
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שְׁבָט proper name, month Shebat, 11th month (post-exilic) = Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian
Šabâṭu (COT
Nehemiah 1:1 Dl
WB),
Zechariah 1:7 (derived from
šabâṭu,
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 SAC
111).
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Nehemiah
1:1
Zechariah
1:7