God had commanded His people to “rest” on the seventh day. (See Exodus 16:23.) The phrase “so the people rested” in Exodus 16:30 is translated from the Hebrew word yisheveth (ותבשׁי). It is from the root word Shabbat (תבּשׁ), which means “to rest” and “to cease.”
1. Shin beth (בשׁ), aleph (א) = shava’ (אבשׁ): “God’s passion.” The first letter of the alphabet is aleph (א) and represents God. Shin (שׁ), beth (ב), aleph (א), or shava’ (אבשׁ), refers to God’s passionate love. The first thing you are to do on this day of rest is to just sit back and let God love you, enjoying His passionate love.
2. Shin beth (בשׁ), beth (ב) = shavav (בבשׁ): “Kindle a fire.” The next thing that should follow on the Sabbath is shavav (בבשׁ), which is to allow this passionate love of God to kindle in you a fire of love and affection that you can return to Him.
3. Shin beth (בשׁ), hei (ה) = shavah (הבשׁ): “To take as captive.” When you and God express love to each other, He will take you as His personal “captive.” Shavah (הבשׁ) is the same word used when a groom comes for his bride, takes her from her father’s house, and carries her to his father’s house to make her his bride and to enter into intimacy with her. So, the next thing God wants to do after He has expressed His love to you, and you have expressed your love to Him, is to shavah (הבשׁ), or to take you away as a bride to His bridal chamber to spend a time of intimacy with you.
4. Shin beth (בשׁ), chet (ח) = shavach (חבשׁ): “To soothe, calm, relax.” When God takes you away as His bride, the first thing He will do is what a bridegroom will do for his new bride—he will seek to make her comfortable and relaxed, to assure her that everything is all right, that he will make certain nothing will happen that will shame her or harm her. During this time with God, you will become shavach (חבשׁ); the pressures and stresses of the prior six days will settle down and be soothed, and you will find your frayed nerves being calmed.
5. Shin beth (בשׁ), teth (ט) = shavat (טבשׁ): “To measure.” Once you are in the bridal chamber, God will measure you. He will lovingly gaze upon you as a husband would gaze upon his bride and measure her beauty. Then he will softly, quietly, whisper to her that she is beautiful. This is the moment when God reminds you that through the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus Christ, all your iniquities and sins have been cleansed, and He has made something beautiful out of you.
6. Shin beth (בשׁ), kap (כ) = shavak (כבשׁ): “To mingle, interweave, have intercourse.” After a time of just enjoying your beauty as His bride, God will then share a more passionate intimacy with you.
7. Shin beth (בשׁ), lamed (ל) = shaval (לבשׁ): “To grow.” During this time of intimacy, God and you will grow closer together, more in love and more passionate with each other.
8. Shin beth (בשׁ), mem (מ) = shavam (מבשׁ): “To share hidden secrets and hidden knowledge.” When two lovers are being intimate, speaking lovingly to each other, they cannot help but share their deepest secrets. They will share things that they would express to no one else. Thus, during this Sabbath rest, God will share the secrets of His heart with you as His bride, as you share the secrets of your heart with Him as your Bridegroom.
9. Shin beth (בשׁ), nun (נ) = shavan (ןבשׁ): “To be tender and delicate.” (The word shavan (ןבשׁ) uses the final form** of the letter nun.) During this time of intimacy, having trusted each other with the deep secrets of your hearts, you enter a period of just sharing intimate words with each other. This will be a time when God speaks tenderly to you as His bride. He will speak of love. He will call you His dearest, His most precious, His treasure, and other gentle, loving, sweet names.
10. Shin beth (בשׁ), ayin (ﬠ) = shava’ (ﬠבשׁ): “To become satisfied, fulfilled.” After a time in which God and you share love, intimacy, and the secrets of your hearts, you, as His bride, will feel a great, overwhelming sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
11. Shin beth (בשׁ), sade (צ) = shavats (צבשׁ): “To weave or intermingle together to create something beautiful.” During this time of intimacy, God as Bridegroom and you as His bride will intermingle together, will weave together, to create something beautiful from your relationship.
12. Shin beth (בשׁ), resh (ר) = shavar (רבשׁ): “To examine in order to make pure.” As the Sabbath concludes, and God has cleansed you, shared His secrets with you, and made you an intimate part of Him, He will then do a final examination of you as His bride and declare that you are indeed pure and holy before Him.
In addition to Shabbat, there are twelve words in Hebrew that begin with shin (שׁ) beth (ב).
Here are the other 12 words that begin with shin beth (בשׁ):
2. Shin beth (בשׁ), beth (ב) = shavav (בבשׁ): “Kindle a fire.” The next thing that should follow on the Sabbath is shavav (בבשׁ), which is to allow this passionate love of God to kindle in you a fire of love and affection that you can return to Him.
3. Shin beth (בשׁ), hei (ה) = shavah (הבשׁ): “To take as captive.” When you and God express love to each other, He will take you as His personal “captive.” Shavah (הבשׁ) is the same word used when a groom comes for his bride, takes her from her father’s house, and carries her to his father’s house to make her his bride and to enter into intimacy with her. So, the next thing God wants to do after He has expressed His love to you, and you have expressed your love to Him, is to shavah (הבשׁ), or to take you away as a bride to His bridal chamber to spend a time of intimacy with you.
4. Shin beth (בשׁ), chet (ח) = shavach (חבשׁ): “To soothe, calm, relax.” When God takes you away as His bride, the first thing He will do is what a bridegroom will do for his new bride—he will seek to make her comfortable and relaxed, to assure her that everything is all right, that he will make certain nothing will happen that will shame her or harm her. During this time with God, you will become shavach (חבשׁ); the pressures and stresses of the prior six days will settle down and be soothed, and you will find your frayed nerves being calmed.
5. Shin beth (בשׁ), teth (ט) = shavat (טבשׁ): “To measure.” Once you are in the bridal chamber, God will measure you. He will lovingly gaze upon you as a husband would gaze upon his bride and measure her beauty. Then he will softly, quietly, whisper to her that she is beautiful. This is the moment when God reminds you that through the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus Christ, all your iniquities and sins have been cleansed, and He has made something beautiful out of you.
6. Shin beth (בשׁ), kap (כ) = shavak (כבשׁ): “To mingle, interweave, have intercourse.” After a time of just enjoying your beauty as His bride, God will then share a more passionate intimacy with you.
7. Shin beth (בשׁ), lamed (ל) = shaval (לבשׁ): “To grow.” During this time of intimacy, God and you will grow closer together, more in love and more passionate with each other.
8. Shin beth (בשׁ), mem (מ) = shavam (מבשׁ): “To share hidden secrets and hidden knowledge.” When two lovers are being intimate, speaking lovingly to each other, they cannot help but share their deepest secrets. They will share things that they would express to no one else. Thus, during this Sabbath rest, God will share the secrets of His heart with you as His bride, as you share the secrets of your heart with Him as your Bridegroom.
9. Shin beth (בשׁ), nun (נ) = shavan (ןבשׁ): “To be tender and delicate.” (The word shavan (ןבשׁ) uses the final form** of the letter nun.) During this time of intimacy, having trusted each other with the deep secrets of your hearts, you enter a period of just sharing intimate words with each other. This will be a time when God speaks tenderly to you as His bride. He will speak of love. He will call you His dearest, His most precious, His treasure, and other gentle, loving, sweet names.
10. Shin beth (בשׁ), ayin (ﬠ) = shava’ (ﬠבשׁ): “To become satisfied, fulfilled.” After a time in which God and you share love, intimacy, and the secrets of your hearts, you, as His bride, will feel a great, overwhelming sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
11. Shin beth (בשׁ), sade (צ) = shavats (צבשׁ): “To weave or intermingle together to create something beautiful.” During this time of intimacy, God as Bridegroom and you as His bride will intermingle together, will weave together, to create something beautiful from your relationship.
12. Shin beth (בשׁ), resh (ר) = shavar (רבשׁ): “To examine in order to make pure.” As the Sabbath concludes, and God has cleansed you, shared His secrets with you, and made you an intimate part of Him, He will then do a final examination of you as His bride and declare that you are indeed pure and holy before Him.
- Chaim Bentorah, Hebrew Word Study, Vol 1 .
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