Saturday's Name in World Languages
StoryHistorical Account★★★★★Did you know that out of 108 languages of the world, the word for Saturday is Sabbath? How do you say Saturday in Spanish? Sabado. Any Russians here? Russkies? Я понимаю немножко русский. Суббота, right? There you got it. Arabic and Indonesian. We don’t have room to put all 108 up there. Isn’t that interesting? Their word for Saturday is Sabbath, because it goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel, friends, when they all scattered.
Batchelor, Doug, “Worshiping the Creator” (AudioVerse teaching 41592).
The point
The speaker highlights that in over 100 languages worldwide, the word for Saturday is derived from 'Sabbath' (e.g., Spanish 'Sabado,' Russian 'Subbota'). This linguistic evidence suggests a universal, ancient recognition of Saturday as the Sabbath, tracing back to the time of the Tower of Babel.