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# סְבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5434

**Seba** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Seba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5434/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סְבָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5434/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 1st son of Cush, poet. and late;—Gn 10:7 (P) (𝔊 Σαβα, as שְׁבָא) = 1 Ch 1:9 (𝔊 id., but B Σαβατ); = nation (or territory) ψ 72:10 (𝔊 Σαβα; + שְׁבָא, 𝔊 Αραβων), so (+ כּוּשׁ, ‖ מִצְרַיִם) Is 43:3 (𝔊 Σοηνη); clearly situated in south; most prob. = λιμὴν Σαβά, and Σαβαὶ πόλις εὐμεγέθης, in Adulic gulf on W. coast of Red Sea; v. Straboxvi. 4.8.10 Ptol iv. 7, 7 f. DiGn Bae ψ DuIs; \> Meroë JosAnt. ii, 10, 2 al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Seba (2); \[were\] Seba (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.10/#tree)

מַלְכֵ֬י תַרְשִׁ֣ישׁ וְ֭אִיִּים מִנְחָ֣ה יָשִׁ֑יבוּ מַלְכֵ֥י שְׁבָ֥א וּ֝סְבָ֗א אֶשְׁכָּ֥ר יַקְרִֽיבוּ׃

*Word for word:* the.kings of.Tarshish and.\[the\] islands tribute they.will.pay the.kings of.Sheba and Seba a.gift they.will.bring.near

*JPS 1917:* The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

[Genesis 10:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.7/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י כ֔וּשׁ סְבָא֙ וַֽחֲוִילָ֔ה וְסַבְתָּ֥ה וְרַעְמָ֖ה וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א וּבְנֵ֥י רַעְמָ֖ה שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Cush \[were\].Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca and the.sons of.Raamah \[were\].Sheba and Dedan

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5434.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5434/): 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).