stovebolts
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herald said:
That’s odd… maybe we can study this a bit more? Is that ok?
I looked up the verse in my KJVSL and it says this. ïÂ¥ï®a primary particle (adversative or continuative); but, and, etc.:--also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English). irregular feminine of 1520; one or first:--a (certain), + agree, first, one, X other of Hebrew origin (7676); the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension, a se'nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications:--sabbath (day), week.
Youngs Literal Translation says this:
And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread…
As far as sabbaton sab'-bat-on, Vines http://vines.mike-obrien.net/) has this to say on the word,
Is used (a) in the plural in the phrase "the first day of the week," Mt. 28:1; Mr. 16:2,9; Lu. 24:1; Joh. 20:1,19; Ac. 20:7; 1Co. 16:2. For this idiomatic use of the word see ONE, A, (5); (b) in the singular, Lu. 18:12, "twice in the week," lit., "twice of the sabbath," i.e., "twice in the days after the sabbath." See SABBATH.
Vines (http://vines.mike-obrien.net/) has this to say about Sabbath
The latter, the plural form was transliterated from the Aramaic word, which was mistaken for a plural; hence the singular, sabbaton, was formed from it. The root means "to cease, desist" (Heb., shabath; cp. Arab., sabata, "to intercept, interrupt"); the doubled b has an intensive force, implying a complete cessation or a making to cease, probably the former. The idea is not that of relaxation or refreshment, but cessation from activity. The observation of the seventh day of the week, enjoined upon Israel, was a sign between God and His earthly people, based upon the fact that after the six days of creative operations He rested, Ex. 31:16,17, with Ex. 20:8-11. The OT regulations were developed and systematized to such an extent that they became a burden upon the people (who otherwise rejoiced in the rest provided) and a byword for absurd extravagance. Two treatises of the Mishna (the Shabbath and Erubin) are entirely occupied with regulations for the observance; so with the discussions in the Gemara, on rabinical opinions. The effect upon current opinion explains the antagonism roused by the Lord's cures wrought on the "Sabbath," e.g., Mt. 12:9-13; Joh. 5:5-16, and explains the fact that on a "Sabbath" the sick were brought to be healed after sunset, e.g., Mr. 1:32. According to rabbinical ideas, the disciples, by plucking ears of corn ( Mt. 12:1; Mr. 2:23), and rubbing them ( Lu. 6:1), broke the "sabbath" in two respects; for to pluck was to reap, and to rub was to thresh. The Lord's attitude towards the "sabbath" was by way of freeing it from these vexatious traditional accretions by which it was made an end in itself, instead of a means to an end ( Mr. 2:27). In the Epistles the only direct mentions are in Col. 2:16, "a sabbath day," RV (which rightly has the singular, see 1st parag., above), where it is listed among things that were "a shadow of the things to come" (ie., of the age introduced at Pentecost), and in Heb. 4:4-11, where the perpetual sabbatismos is appointed for believers (see REST); inferential references are in Ro. 14:5; Ga. 4:9-11. For the first three centuries of the Christian era the first day of the week was never confounded with the "sabbath;" the confusion of the Jewish and Christian institutions was due to declension from apostolic teaching. Notes: (1) In Mt. 12:1,11, where the plural is used, the AV (as the RV) rightly has the singular, "the sabbath day;" in Mt. 12:5 the AV has the plural (see above). Where the singular is used the RV omits the word "day," Mt. 12:2; 24:20; Mr. 6:2; Lu. 6:1 ("on a sabbath"); 14:3; Joh. 9:14 ("it was the sabbath on the day when ..."). As to the use or omission of the article the omission does not always require the rendering "a sabbath;" it is absent, e.g., in Mt. 12:2. (2) In Ac. 16:13, "on the sabbath day," is, lit., "on the day of the sabbath" (plural). (3) For Mt. 28:1, see LATE. (4) For "the first day of the week" see ONE, A, (5).
It appears to me, that the sabbath your referring to, denotes the seventh day of the week, not the first day as mentioned in Acts 20:7
Genesis 2:2-3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: