- סַנְבַּ׳
- סַבַּטְיוֹן, סַמְבַּ׳, סַנְבַּ׳,pr. n., נְהַר ס׳ (Σαββατεῖον, Σαββατικός) the river Sabbation, said to rest on the seventh day (v. Plin. Hist. Nat. XXXI, 2; Jos. Bell. Jud. V, 5, 1; Neub. Géogr. p. 3 3). Snh.65b נהר ס׳ יוכיח let the river S. prove (that the seventh day is the Sabbath); Yalk. Lev. 617 סנ׳; Gen. R. s. 11 סמ׳; Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 33 סמ׳; Pesik. R. s. 23 סמ׳. Gen. R. s. 73 עשרת … לפנים מנהר סמ׳וכ׳ the ten tribes were exiled to within the confines of the river S., whereas Judah and Benjamin were scattered over all lands; Y.Snh.X, 29c bot. סנ׳; Targ. Y. Ex. 34:10 מן לניו לנהר סמ׳.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.