H5454

סַבְתָּה

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Sabtah

A man of the Cushites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.7; son of: Cush (H3568); brother of: Seba (H5434), Havilah (H2341H), Raamah (H7484), Sabteca (H5455) and Nimrod (H5248); also called Sabta at 1Ch.1.9; § Sabta or Sabtah = "striking" the 3rd son of Cush

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

סַבְתָּה, סַבְתָּא proper name, of a people 3rd 'son' of Cush according to Gen 10:7 (הָ֯), = 1Chr 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.

2 occurrences

Genesis (1), I Chronicles (1)