STRONGS NUMBER H7627

H7627. Shebat

שְׁבָט‎ proper name, month Shebat, 11th month (post-exilic) = Feb.-March; loan-word from Babylonian Šabâ‰u (COT^{Nehemiah 1:1} Dl^WB), Zechariah 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)

שְׁבִית שִׁבְיָה, שְׁבִי,‎ see שׁבה‎.

שׁבל‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic IV. cause to hang down, flowing dress; Assyrian šubultu, sunbultu (Meissn), Arabic , (Ba^{NB 207}), Ethiopic Aramaic שֻׁבַלְתָּא‎ , all ear of grain).