Shabtin is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the central West Bank.
Shabtin is bordered by Al Itihad to the east, Shuqba to the north, Ni'lin to the west, and Deir Qaddis to the south.
Shabtin, where pottery sherds from the Persian,[5] Persian/Hellenistic,[5] late Roman,[6] Byzantine[5][6] Umayyad/Abbasid eras have been found.
[11] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted the village, Cheptin, on the slopes of a hill in the distance.
[13][14] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described ‘’Shebtin’’ as: "a small village in a valley, with a well to the east.