שְׁבָאShᵉbâʼ

proper name [of a people and territory]: Shebâ, Sheba, in southwest Arabia (1 Kings 10:1; 1 Kings 10:4; 1 Kings 10:10; 1 Kings 10:13; 2 Chronicles 9:1)

Pronunciation: sheb-aw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7614

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 23 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 10:7 The descendants of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
  • Genesis 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
  • Genesis 25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. Dedan’s descendants were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.
  • 1 Kings 10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, which brought honor to the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
  • 1 Kings 10:4 When the queen of Sheba realized how very wise Solomon was, and when she saw the palace he had built,
  • 1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king a gift of 9,000 pounds of gold, great quantities of spices, and precious jewels. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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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).