◄ 5454. Sabta or Sabtah ► |
Lexicon Sabta or Sabtah: a son of Cush, also the territory settled by his desc. Original Word: סַבְתָּאPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Sabta or Sabtah Phonetic Spelling: (sab-taw') Short Definition: Sabta NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitiona son of Cush, also the territory settled by his desc. NASB TranslationSabta (1), Sabtah (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs סַבְתָּה, סַבְתָּא proper name, of a people 3rd 'son' of Cush according to Genesis 10:7 ( הָ֯), = 1 Chronicles 1:9 ( אָ֯); identification with Σαββαθα [Periplus maris Erythr. 27], Σαυβαθα Ptol vi. 7, 38, or Σαβατα [Strabo xvi. 42], Sabota [Plin NH vi. § 155, xii. 63], old commercial city of South Arabia, by Tu Ku, but this = Sabean שבות (not ׳ס) Levy-Os ZMG xix (1865), 253; xx (1866), 273, compare Hal JAS 7, iv. 525; Glaser Skizze ii. 252 f. proposes Σαφθα (Ptol vi. 7, 30), near west shore of Persian Gulf; ᵐ5 Σαβαθα, Σαβατα, Σεβαθα. All uncertain conjectures. Strong's Sabta, Sabtah Or Cabtah {sab-taw'}; probably of foreign derivation; Sabta or Sabtah, the name of a son of Cush, and the country occupied by his posterity -- Sabta, Sabtah. |
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