Shabbethai (Hastings' Dictionary)

A Levite who opposed the action of Ezra in the matter of the foreign marriages, Ezr 10" (B ^afiaOal, A Ka/3,3a9af) = Sabbateus of 1 Es 9". He is mentioned also, along with other Levites, in Neh 8' (LXX om.), as explaining tlie law to the people (in 1 Es 9^ Sabateus) ; and in 11'" (B.Vn om., «=• 2o/9/3a- Saios) as one of ' the chiefs of the Levites who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God." SHACHIA (.xrf, so Baer; the MSS show the variants n;;?', n, s, x;r^', .

n;=y, the last being sup- ported by the Syr. and the LXX [B ^afiia, A 2f/3t(i, but Luc. 2cx"i], while the forms in : instead of 2 can claim the support of the Vulg. Sechia). — A son of Shaliaraim, a Benjamite, 1 Ch 8'°.