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# סַבְתָּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5454

**Sabta** — used 2 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

Sabta [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַבְתָּה: n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. 3rd ‘son’ of Cush according to Gn 10:7 (ה—ָ), = 1 Ch 1:9 (א—ָ); identif. with Σαββαθα \[Periplus maris Erythr.27\], Σαυβαθα Ptol vi. 7, 38, or Σαβατα \[Straboxvi. 42\], Sabota \[PlinNH vi. § 155, xii. 63\], old commercial city of S. Arabia, by Tuch Ku, but this = Sab. שבות (not ס׳) Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 253; xx (1866), 273, cf. HalJAs 7, iv. 525; GlaserSkizze ii. 252 f. proposes Σαφθα (Ptol vi. 7, 30), near W. shore of Pers. Gulf; 𝔊 Σαβαθα, Σαβατα, Σεβαθα. All uncertain conjectures.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[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.

[1 Chronicles 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.9/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י כ֔וּשׁ סְבָא֙ וַחֲוִילָ֔ה וְסַבְתָּ֥א וְרַעְמָ֖א וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א וּבְנֵ֥י רַעְמָ֖א שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן׃ס

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

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raama: Sheba, and Dedan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5454.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/): 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).