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Sabbatai Zevi: The Mystical Messiah
Sabbatai Zevi: The Mystical Messiah is Gershom Scholem's landmark study of the Sabbatean messianic movement, published in Hebrew in 1957 and translated into English by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky in 1973.
Sabbath
The Sabbath, Hebrew shabbat meaning "rest," is the weekly day of rest from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday in Judaism, adopted in modified form by Christianity and Islam.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Black Sabbath's fifth studio album, released December 1, 1973 on Vertigo and Warner Bros. Written at Clearwell Castle after writer's block, with Rick Wakeman on keyboards; first Sabbath album with positive mainstream reviews and fifth US platinum album.
Sabbath in Christianity
Sabbath in Christianity, also called the Christian sabbath, is the set of beliefs and practices around the seventh-day Sabbath commandment, with most Christians keeping Sunday, the Lord's Day.
Sabbath mode
Sabbath mode, also Shabbos mode, is an appliance firmware setting developed with Star-K and Whirlpool in 1997 that lets observant Jews use appliances on Shabbat.
Sabbatical
A sabbatical, or sabbatical leave, is an extended break from work, typically one month to a year, with a guaranteed return to the job; Harvard created the first policy in 1880.
Sabbavaram (సబ్బవరం)
Sabbavaram (సబ్బవరం) is a village and mandal headquarters in Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, about 30 km from Visakhapatnam; 12,200 residents in 2011, literacy 73.49%, and start of the NH-516C six-lane Sabbavaram–Sheelanagar port road.
Sabbir Khan
Sabbir Khan is an Indian Hindi-film director and screenwriter, son of lyricist Noor Dewasi, not the Melbourne rail engineer, sarangi player Sabir Khan, or the New York ENT doctor. Directed Kambakkht Ishq (2009), Heropanti (2014), Baaghi (2016), Munna Michael (2017), Nikamma (2022), and Adbhut (2024), launching Tiger Shroff.
Sabda Akasha
Sabda Akasha, also written Sabdara Akasha and translated as The Sky of Words, is a 1971 Odia poetry collection by Sitakant Mahapatra that won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Śabdālaṃkāra
Śabdālaṃkāra (शब्दालङ्कार, "figure of sound") is a category of alaṃkāra in Sanskrit poetics whose figures, such as alliteration (anuprāsa) and pun (śleṣa), rest on sound rather than meaning.
Sabdar Akash
Sabdar Akash (ଶବ୍ଦର ଆକାଶ; also written Sabdara Akasha, "The Sky of Words") is a 1971 Odia poetry collection by Sitakant Mahapatra, his third, which won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sabdham (சப்தம்)
Sabdham (சப்தம்) is a 2025 Tamil supernatural horror thriller by Arivazhagan, reuniting him with Aadhi Pinisetty after Eeram (2009); Aadhi plays a sound-based paranormal investigator probing deaths at a Munnar medical college, with music by Thaman, mixed reviews, ₹9.25 Cr worldwide gross, and a ZEE5 debut on 24 March 2026.
Sabeeha Merchant
Sabeeha Merchant is an American biochemist at UC Berkeley who studies trace-metal use in photosynthetic cells and led the sequencing of the Chlamydomonas genome, published in Science in 2007.
Sabeer Bhatia (सबीर भाटिया)
Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian-American entrepreneur, born in Chandigarh and educated at Caltech and Stanford, who co-founded Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft in 1997 for about $400 million.
Sabef
Sabef was a high official of Egypt's First Dynasty who served King Qa'a; his funerary stela from Abydos is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Sabella spallanzanii
Sabella spallanzanii, the Mediterranean fanworm (Gmelin, 1791), is a large sabellid polychaete native to the Mediterranean and NE Atlantic, invasive in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s/2008, and cultivated as an IMTA bioremediator.
Sabellaria alveolata
Sabellaria alveolata, the honeycomb worm (Linnaeus, 1767), is a reef-building polychaete of Europe's Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts that cements sand and shell into honeycomb reefs, notably in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, with proteinaceous visco-elastic biocement.
Sabellaria spinulosa
Sabellaria spinulosa (ross worm), a tube-building reef-forming polychaete of European and Mediterranean coasts; sand-grain tubes, OSPAR status poor in North Sea and Celtic Seas, Annex I habitat.
Sabellastarte spectabilis
Sabellastarte spectabilis, the feather duster worm (formerly Sabellastarte indica), is a large Indo-Pacific sabellid polychaete introduced to Hawaii, a suspension feeder harvested heavily for the aquarium trade.
Sabellianism
Sabellianism is the 3rd-century doctrine attributed to Sabellius that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one being in three successive modes, condemned by church authorities.
Sabellidae
Sabellidae, fan worms or feather-duster worms, is a family of tube-dwelling annelids with a ciliated radiolar crown used for feeding and respiration; sister to Serpulidae within Sabellida, with subfamilies Myxicolinae and Sabellinae.
Sabena
Sabena was the national airline of Belgium, founded in 1923 and operating a pioneering network to Africa before going bankrupt in 2001, one of the world's oldest airlines.
Sabena Flight 548
Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707 that crashed on approach to Brussels in 1961, killing all 72 aboard, including the entire US figure skating team.
Saber (セイバー) (Fate/stay night)
Saber (セイバー), true name Artoria, King Arthur, is the main heroine and sword-class Servant of Fate/stay night (2004), contracted to Shirou Emiya, voiced by Ayako Kawasumi, and the franchise's signature character.
Saber Corp.
Saber Corp. was a Portland, Oregon software company founded by brothers Nitin and Karan Khanna, best known for statewide voter registration and election management systems sold to states after the Help America Vote Act.
Saber El Robaee
Saber El Robaee (صابر الرباعي), also known as Saber Rebaï, is a Tunisian singer born in 1967 in Sfax, best known for his modernized reprise "Sidi Mansour".
Saber Interactive
Saber Interactive, also Saber, is an American video game developer and publisher founded in 2001 by Matthew Karch, known for Space Marine 2, SnowRunner, World War Z, the Saber3D engine, Embracer ownership 2020-2024, and the Beacon Interactive buyback.
Sabermetrics
Sabermetrics, from SABR, is the statistical analysis of baseball coined by Bill James in 1980; it produced OPS, FIP, wOBA, and WAR and entered MLB mainstream via the 2002 Oakland Athletics and Moneyball.
Sabesp
Sabesp is a Brazilian water and sewage utility serving 375 municipalities of São Paulo state, the largest sanitation company in Brazil, which the State of São Paulo privatized in 2024.
Sabethes
Sabethes, the canopy mosquitoes, is a genus of 42 colorful forest mosquito species in Central and South America, several of which transmit yellow fever and other arboviruses.