title: Shabtai (given name)
text: # 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
  