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# סְבָאִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5436

**Sᵉbā’im** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sᵉbā’im [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5436/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְבָאִים: n.pl.gent. Sebāʾim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5436/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.gent. Sebāʾim, 𝔊 οἱ Σαβαειμ, A Σεβωειμ;—וּס׳ אַנְשֵׁי מִדָּה Is 45:14 (+ כּוּשׁ, ‖ מִצְרַיִם, cf. 43:3 supr.); this perhaps intended also by Ez 23:42 Qr (v. סָבָא), perhaps confounding it with שְׁבָא, cf. 𝔖.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sabeans (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 45:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.45.14/#tree)

כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה יְגִ֨יעַ מִצְרַ֥יִם וּֽסְחַר־כּוּשׁ֮ וּסְבָאִים֮ אַנְשֵׁ֣י מִדָּה֒ עָלַ֤יִךְ יַעֲבֹ֙רוּ֙ וְלָ֣ךְ יִֽהְי֔וּ אַחֲרַ֣יִךְ יֵלֵ֔כוּ בַּזִּקִּ֖ים יַעֲבֹ֑רוּ וְאֵלַ֤יִךְ יִֽשְׁתַּחֲוּוּ֙אֵלַ֣יִךְ יִתְפַּלָּ֔לוּ אַ֣ךְ בָּ֥ךְ אֵ֛ל וְאֵ֥ין ע֖וֹד אֶ֥פֶס אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh the.produce of.Egypt and the.trading.profit of.Cush and.\[the\] Sabeans people of.stature to you they.will.pass.over and to you they.will.belong behind you they.will.walk in (the) fetters they.will.pass.over and to you they.will.bow.down to you they.will.pray surely \[is\].among you God and there.\[is\].not yet there.not \[are\].gods

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine; they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee: Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no other God.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5436.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5436/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).