Shabtai (given name)
# Shabtai (given name)

Shabtai (Sabbatai, Sabbathai, Shabbatai, Shabbethai, Shabsai, etc. Hebrew: שבתאי or שבתי) is a Jewish masculine name.

According to Encyclopaedia Biblica, as the name stands, it might mean one born on the Sabbath. Most probably, however, the name is a modification of the ethnic Zephathi, 'Zephathite' (such as Zarephathi and Zarephatite). A Babylonian name Šabbatâ'a has been reported from Nippur by Hilprecht.

## Notable people

### Shabbethai, Shabbatai

* Shabbethai Bass
* Shabbethai Donnolo
* Shabbatai HaKohen
* Shabbethai Horowitz
* Shabbethai Panzieri
* Shabbethai Premsla

**Second name**

* Moses Shabbethai Beer
* Joseph Shabbethai Farhi

### Shabsai

* Shabsai Frankel (1909–2000), rabbi, businessman, philanthropist, and publisher of Torah books
* Shabsa Mashkautsan (1924–2022), Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union

### Shabtai

* Shabbethai, one or more biblical figures
* Shabtai Ambron (fl. early 18th century), astronomer
* Shabtai Bass (1641–1718), father of Jewish bibliography, and author
* Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham, Hebrew name of Bob Dylan (born 1941), American singer
* Shabbethai ben Meïr ha-Kohen (1621–62), the "Shach", a noted talmudist and halakhist
* Shabtai Daniel (1909–81), Israeli journalist and politician
* Shabtai Horowitz (c. 1590–1660), rabbi and talmudist
* Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz (1565–1619), kabbalistic author
* Shabtai Kalmanovich (1947–2009), KGB spy
* Shabtai Levy (1876–1956), Israeli mayor of Haifa
* Shabtai Rosenne (1917–2010), Israeli professor and diplomat
* Shabtai Shavit (born 1941), Israeli Director General of the Mossad
* Shabtai Shikhman (1915–87), Israeli politician
* Shabtai Teveth (born 1925), Israeli journalist and academic
* Shabtai Zvi, (1626–76), Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the Jewish Messiah, gaining many adherents, until his conversion to Islam
