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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

sab-a-te'-us (Codex Alexandrinus Sabbataias; Codex Vaticanus Abtaios; the King James Version Sabateas): One of the Levites who "taught the law of the Lord" to the multitude (1 Esdras 9:48) = "Shabbethai" in Ne 8:7.