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# שְׁבָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7614

**Sheba** — used 23 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

Sheba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7614/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁבָא: n.pr.gent. et terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7614/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. Shebâ, in SW. Arabia (Sab. סבא DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 9, סבא vb. = make campaign MordtHI 72 or expedition Sab.Denkm.No. 12, 1, 5, 14; cf. DSMargoliouth HastDB sheba F.B. Ency. Bib. sheba and reff.);—Sheba: מַלְכַּת־שׁ׳ 1 K 10:1, 4, 10, 13 = 2 Ch 9:1, 3, 9, 12; מַלְכֵי שׁ׳ ψ 72:10; famous for trade, רֹכְלֵי שׁ׳ Ez 27:22, 23, הֲלִיכֹת שׁ׳ Jb 6:19 (‖ תֵּמָא); yielding costly wares Ez 38:13, זְהַב שׁ׳ ψ 72:15, לְבוֹנָה מִשּׁ׳ Je 6:20 (‖ מֵאֶרֶץ מֶרְחָק, cf. foll.), paying homage and tribute to Israel in future Is 60:6; descended from (Yoḳtan and) Shem Gn 10:28 (J) = 1 Ch 1:22, from (Yoḳshan and) Abr. and Ḳeṭûrâh Gn 25:3 (J?) = 1 Ch 1:32 (i.e. a northern branch of Sheba, + דְּדָן, q.v.), but from כּוּשׁ Gn 10:7 (P) = 1 Ch 1:9; marauders, N. Arabia, Jb 1:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Sheba (13); Sheba (6); \[were\] Sheba (3).

## In the verses

[Job 6:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/#tree)

הִ֭בִּיטוּ אָרְח֣וֹת תֵּמָ֑א הֲלִיכֹ֥ת שְׁ֝בָ֗א קִוּוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* they.look the.caravans of.Tema the.caravans of.Sheba they.wait.eagerly for them

*JPS 1917:* The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them —

[Genesis 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.28/#tree)

וְאֶת־עוֹבָ֥ל וְאֶת־אֲבִֽימָאֵ֖ל וְאֶת־שְׁבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Obal and (et) Abimael and (et) Sheba

*JPS 1917:* and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7614.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7614/): 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).