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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #5434 - סְבָא

Transliteration

Çᵉbâʼ

Phonetics

seb-aw'

Origin

of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun, proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Seba = "drink thou"
n pr m
1. a son of Cush
n pr loc
1. a nation south of Palestine, perhaps Ethiopia

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

BSB (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

CSB (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

ESV (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

KJV (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

LEB (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

LSB (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

N95 (3)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Isaiah 1

NAS (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (4)

Genesis 1

1 Chronicles 1

Psalms 1

Isaiah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

סְבָא proper name, masculine 1st son of Cush, in poetry and late; — Genesis 10:7 (P) (ᵐ5 Σαβα, as שְׁבָא) = 1 Chronicles 1:9 (ᵐ5 id., but B Σαβατ); = nation (or territory) Psalm 72:10 (ᵐ5 Σαβα; + שְׁבָא, ᵐ5 Αραβων), so (+ כּוּשׁ, "" מִצְרַיִם) Isaiah 43:3 (ᵐ5 Σοηνη); clearly situated in south; most probably = λιμὴν Σαβά, and Σαβαὶ πόλις εὐμεγέθης, in Adulic gulf on west coast of Red Sea; see Strabo^{xvi. 4. 8. 10} Ptol^{iv. 7,7f.} Di^Gn Bae^Psalm Du^Is; > Meroë Jos^{Ant. ii. 10}, 2and others

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סְבָא (fort. i.q. Ethiop. ሰብእ፡ a man; compare סַבְתָּה, סַבְתְּכָא), [Seba], pr.n. of a country and a nation sprung from Cush (Genesis 10:7), which, according to Josephus Ant. 2:10, § 2 ), seems to have been Meroë, a province of Ethiopia flourishing in merchandise and wealth, surrounded by the branches of the Nile. It had a metropolis of the same name, the ruins of which are still found not far from the town of Dschendi; (see Ed. Rüppell, Reisen in Nubien und dem Peträischen Arabien, 1829, tab. 5), Isaiah 43:3; Psalms 72:10. The Gentile noun, plur. סְבָאִים Isaiah 45:14 (on which passage compare Herod. iii. 20, as to the tallness of the nation). See Michaëlis Spicilegium Geogr. Hebr. ext. t. i. p. 177, seq., and his Supplemm., p. 1707.

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List of Word Forms

וּ֝סְבָ֗א וּסְבָ֖א וסבא סְבָא֙ סבא sə·ḇā səḇā seVa ū·sə·ḇā ūsəḇā useVa