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title: סַבְתָּא — Sabta · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סַבְתָּא (5454), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Sabta. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סַבְתָּא

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«סַבְתָּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sabta** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 5454 · **BDB:** סַבְתָּה

### Glosses

Sabta (1); Sabtah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sabta [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. 3rd ‘son’ of Cush according to Gn 10:7 (ה—ָ), = 1 Ch 1:9 (א—ָ); identif. with Σαββαθα \[Periplus maris Erythr.27\], Σαυβαθα Ptol vi. 7, 38, or Σαβατα \[Straboxvi. 42\], Sabota \[PlinNH vi. § 155, xii. 63\], old commercial city of S. Arabia, by Tuch Ku, but this = Sab. שבות (not ס׳) Levy-OsZMG xix (1865), 253; xx (1866), 273, cf. HalJAs 7, iv. 525; GlaserSkizze ii. 252 f. proposes Σαφθα (Ptol vi. 7, 30), near W. shore of Pers. Gulf; 𝔊 Σαβαθα, Σαβατα, Σεβαθα. All uncertain conjectures.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «סַבְתָּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5454/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.7/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י כ֔וּשׁ סְבָא֙ וַֽחֲוִילָ֔ה וְסַבְתָּ֥ה וְרַעְמָ֖ה וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א וּבְנֵ֥י רַעְמָ֖ה שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Cush \[were\].Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca and the.sons of.Raamah \[were\].Sheba and Dedan

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

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[1 Chronicles 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.9/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י כ֔וּשׁ סְבָא֙ וַחֲוִילָ֔ה וְסַבְתָּ֥א וְרַעְמָ֖א וְסַבְתְּכָ֑א וּבְנֵ֥י רַעְמָ֖א שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Cush \[were\].Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raamah and Sabteca and the.sons of.Raamah \[were\].Sheba and Dedan

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raama: Sheba, and Dedan.

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