H7673

• {"n":"Genesis 2:2-3","s":"God rested. The verb means stopped, not recovered.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=genesis-2-2-3","r":"Genesis 2:2-3","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every English version reads rested here, and later at Exodus 20:11 for the same day, using one English word for two different Hebrew verbs."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**I stopped for lunch.** That says nothing about being tired. **I rested after the race.** That does, because rest in English leans toward recovering strength. The verb behind Sabbath only ever says the first one."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Vayishbot, from shabat, to cease, desist, stop an activity. It is the root behind the noun Sabbath itself, and it says nothing about fatigue or recovery. Exodus 20:11, the fourth commandment, describes the same day with a different verb, vayanach, from nuach, to settle down or rest. Genesis 2 does not use that verb."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English rest almost always implies tiredness relieved. Hebrew shabat is a verb of stopping, applied here to a God the text never says grew tired. One English word covers a distinction the Hebrew draws across two different books of the Torah."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Track a key verb across its first occurrence and its most famous one. Genesis 2 and Exodus 20 describe the same seventh day with two different Hebrew verbs, and no English Bible has ever needed two different words to say it."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"No real dispute over the English gloss; rested is the natural word in both places. What matters here is that the vocabulary shift between Genesis 2 and Exodus 20 disappears once both are translated rest, and it is worth knowing before building an argument about divine fatigue on either verse."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05e9\u05b8\u05c1\u05d1\u05b7\u05ea shabat \u00b7 H7673"}],"src":["The fourth commandment uses nuach instead: Exodus 20:11","shabat as cease\/desist rather than physical rest: standard BDB and HALOT entries","The noun Shabbat is built on this verb"]}