Exodus 20:8

World English Bible (2000)

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זָכ֛וֹר֩ אֶת־י֥֨וֹם הַשַׁבָּ֖֜ת לְקַדְּשֽׁ֗וֹ

Transliteration

zāḵôr ʾeṯ-yôm hash-shabbāṯ lə-qaddəshô

Grammar Details

• *zāḵôr*: qal infinitive absolute functioning as imperative - remember
• *ʾeṯ-yôm*: direct object marker + masculine singular construct - the day of
• *hash-shabbāṯ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the sabbath
• *lə-qaddəshô*: preposition + piel infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to sanctify it

Word Meanings

• *zāḵôr*: remember/be mindful of/observe
• *shabbāṯ*: sabbath/rest day
• *lə-qaddəshô*: to sanctify it/to keep it holy/to set it apart

Referenced Verses

• Exod 31:13-16 : 13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
• Lev 19:3 : 3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
• Lev 26:2 : 2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
• Gen 2:3 : 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
• Lev 19:30 : 30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
• Lev 23:3 : 3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
• Exod 16:23-30 : 23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'" 24 They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it. 25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none." 27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. 28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day." 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
• Exod 23:12 : 12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
• Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: 5 to them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;