sab-a-tē´us (Codex Alexandrinus ΣαββαταιÌας, SabbataıÌas; Codex Vaticanus Ἀβταῖος, AbtaıÌos; 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 .