Ben Shabbethai ( he, בן שבתי; arabised as Ibn Shabbethai) is a Hebrew
patronymic
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patronymic surname literally meaning "son of
Shabbethai. Notable people with the name include:
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Judah ibn Shabbethai
Judah ibn Shabbethai ( Hebrew: יהודה בן שבתי) was a Jewish-Spanish poet of the end of the 12th century. He has been identified with the physician Judah b. Isaac of Barcelona, who is praised as a poet by Al-Ḥarizi (ch. 46), but he may ...
, Jewish-Spanish poet of the end of the 12th century
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Ḥayyim ben Shabbethai,Sephardic rabbi and Talmudist
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