Shabbat — the seventh day — is the first reality the Torah declares holy. In Genesis 2:3 we read: "And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He ceased (shabat) from all His work which God created to do."
The verb שבת (shabat — "to cease", "to rest") appears there conjugated, before becoming the noun (Shabbat) in Exodus 16.
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Reproduce →In Genesis 2:2-3, שבת appears as a verb ("ceased"). The noun "Shabbat" as the name of the day is technically established in Exodus. But the root, the concept, and the first sanctification are in Genesis.
We search שבת (3 letters) in Genesis with skips of 2 to 1000. Multiple hits expected due to brevity.
Key question: does the smallest-skip ELS fall near Genesis 2:1-3 (the seal of creation) or far?
Try crossing שבת with קדש (holy), שביעי (seventh), בריאה (creation) or ויכלו (the opening word of Gen 2:1). Multiple convergence near Genesis 2 would be a thematically rich finding.
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