בַּת־שֶׁבַעBath-Shebaʻ
proper name, feminine: wife of Uriah, afterwards of David, & mother of Solomon (2 Samuel 11:3; Psalms 50:2; 2 Samuel 12:24; 1 Kings 1:11; 1 Kings 1:15)
Pronunciation: bath-sheh'-bah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1339
Same root
- בַּתbath · H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
- שֶׁבַעshebaʻ · H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
- שָׁבַעshâbaʻ · H7650to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
- בַּת־שׁוּעַBath-Shûwaʻ · H1340Bath-shua,
Where it appears
Appears 22 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 11:3 He sent someone to find out who she was, and he was told, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- 2 Samuel 12:24 Then David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and slept with her. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and David named him Solomon. The Lord loved the child
- 1 Kings 1:11 Then Nathan went to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, and asked her, “Haven’t you heard that Haggith’s son, Adonijah, has made himself king, and our lord David doesn’t even know about it?
- 1 Kings 1:15 So Bathsheba went into the king’s bedroom. (He was very old now, and Abishag was taking care of him.)
- 1 Kings 1:16 Bathsheba bowed down before the king. “What can I do for you?” he asked her.
- 1 Kings 1:28 King David responded, “Call Bathsheba!” So she came back in and stood before the king.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).