break the Sabbath

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Verb

break the Sabbath (third-person singular simple present breaks the Sabbath, present participle breaking the Sabbath, simple past broke the Sabbath, past participle broken the Sabbath)

1. (idiomatic) To violate (the holiness or sanctity of) the Sabbath (by not keeping it holy).

   Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? (New American Standard Bible, ©1995)

Antonyms

• keep the Sabbath
• observe the Sabbath
• sabbatise, sabbatize

Related terms

• Sabbath-breaker
• Sabbath-breaking
• Sabbath-keeper
• Sabbath-keeping
• Sabbath observance
• Sabbath observer

Translations

to break the Sabbath

• Esperanto: profani la sabaton, malsanktigi la sabaton
• French: violer le sabbat, profaner le sabbat
• German: den Sabbat brechen, den Sabbat entheiligen, den Sabbat schänden, den Sabbat entweihen
• Romanian: încălca Sabatul
• Volapük: säsaludükön jabati, viodön jabati