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Is there a connection linguistically between the word for "Seven" and for "Sabbath" in the Biblical languages, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek? If so, could someone explain it to me.

This is related to the textual phrase "first day of the week" in the New Testament. see "The first day of the week in Corinthians 16:2" related also to Peshitta--the difference between "Sabbath" and "week"

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I would link to the relevant question also to show this question is related to a textual question (I know the context, but others may not and assume this is just a Hebrew language question, which would be off topic). – theosis Feb 17 at 22:44
Sony Cherian sent me the link to this chart relevant to this discussion: sa-hebroots.com/chart_days_of_week.php – Sarah Feb 19 at 6:17

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In Hebrew the words share two of the three letters of the root:

Sabbath (Shabbat), שַׁבָּת, is Strong's H7676. It is spelled shin-bet-taf.

Seven, שֶׁבַע, is Strong's H7651. It is spelled shin-bet-'ayin.

While Shabbat does fall on the seventh day of the week, Strong's doesn't note a linguistic connection between the two words nor have I ever learned one (for what that's worth). As far as I can tell they are just two similar-looking words.

It appears from a cursory inspection of tractate Shabbat in the Babylonian talmud that Aramaic uses the same roots for these words. (This is as expected, but I did my best to verify. My Aramaic is weaker than my Hebrew.)

I do not know about Greek.

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While writing this I tried to research how often words that share two of three root letters are related (if ever), but I didn't find anything concrete before I gave it up as a tangent to this question. Maybe that would make a good question on its own. – Monica Cellio Feb 17 at 21:46
Someone else said, "The words have two distinct roots. The root for Sabbath (שבת) means "rest". It is not directly etymologically related to the root for seven (שבע) in either language. However, the notion of some distant etymological relationship has occurred to me; see for example the entry for "seven" in this Akkadian dictionary. (I don't know much about Akkadian, so it could be that the "t" or "s" in some variants of the word are not derived from the root)." – Sarah Feb 18 at 2:00
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There is no connection at all in Hebrew. They have different triliteral roots. The idea that roots that share two letters are related is very weakly supported.

Shabbat: שבת 
Sheva: שבע
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