SHABBETHAI shăb’ ə thī (שַׁבְּתַ֥י). A Levite who was involved with Ezra in the edict against having foreign wives (Ezra 10:15; 1 Esd 9:14, KJV SABBATHEUS, ASV SABBATEUS). It is not absolutely certain whether he opposed or assisted Ezra in this matter; prob. the latter. He was present at the reading of the law (Neh 8:7; 1 Esd 9:48). The “chief of the Levites” referred to in Nehemiah 11:16 may be the same man.