Bible Person

Shabbethai

Meaning: my rest · Male · 1 cross reference

This Shabbethai entry refers to the man named in Ezra 10:15 alongside Jonathan and Meshullam, not to the Levitical figures in Nehemiah 8:7 and 11:16. He belongs to the tense public setting in which the restored community works through covenant reform. First appears in Ezra 10:15.1

AI summary: This Shabbethai matters because his single cross reference places him among those who resist or question the method used to address unlawful marriages. The entry helps show that post-exilic reform was not frictionless but involved real disagreement within the community. Taken together, the material presents this Shabbethai as a dissenting figure in Ezra's reform context.1

Central Figure

Shabbethai

Meaning: my rest