Senses
1. Sheba (person/place name) — The proper name Sheba (Hebrew sheva), referring to several persons and a region in the Hebrew Bible: (1) a grandson of Cush (Gen 10:7), (2) a son of Joktan (Gen 10:28), (3) a grandson of Abraham through Keturah (Gen 25:3), and (4) the wealthy Arabian kingdom whose queen visited Solomon (1 Kgs 10). All three sense clusters represent grammatical variants of the same proper noun across different syntactic contexts (standalone, with prepositions, with conjunctions). Multilingual evidence uniformly treats these as one name: Spanish 'Seba/Saba/Sheva,' Arabic 'shaba/saba,' Hindi 'shaba/sheba,' Korean 'seuba/siba,' Swahili 'Sheba/Wasabayo.' The slight spelling variations (Sheba vs. Sheva vs. Sebam) reflect transliteration differences, not distinct referents in the Hebrew text. 23×
AR["سَبَأٍ","سَبَأَ","شَبا","شَبَأَ","شَبَا","شَبَاءَ","شَبَاءُ","مِنْ-سَبَأَ"]·ben["শিবা","শিবা-থেকে","শিবার","শেবা","শেবার"]·DE["Scheba","Sheba","[משבא]","[שבא]"]·EN["Sheba","Sheva","from-Sheba","from-Sheva"]·FR["Sheba","Séba","[משבא]"]·heb["מ-שבא","שְׁבָא","שבא"]·HI["शबा","शबा-की","शबा-के","शबा-से","शेबा","शेबा-की","शेबा-के","शेबा-को","से-शेबा"]·ID["Syeba","Syeba,","dari-Syeba"]·IT["Seba","Sheba","Sheva","[משבא]","che-venne"]·jav["Seba","Syeba","Syéba","Sèba","Séba","saking-Seba"]·KO["셔바의","스바","스바-의","시바","시바-의","시바의","에서-스바"]·PT["Sabá","Sheva","de-Sabá","de-Sheva"]·RU["Шева","Шеву","Шевы","и-Дедан","из-Шевы"]·ES["Saba","Sabá","Seba","Sheva","Shevá","de-Saba","de-Sheva"]·SW["Sheba","kutoka-Sheba","wa-Sheba"]·TR["Saba'nın","Seba'nın","Sebe'nın","Sheba'dan","Yişbak'ı","Şeba","Şeba'dan","Şeba'nın","Şeva","Şeva'yı"]·urd["سبا","سبا-سے","سبا-نے","سبا-کو","سبا-کی","سبا-کے","شبا"]
Gen 10:7, Gen 10:28, Gen 25:3, 1 Kgs 10:1, 1 Kgs 10:4, 1 Kgs 10:10, 1 Kgs 10:13, 1 Chr 1:9, 1 Chr 1:22, 1 Chr 1:32, 2 Chr 9:1, 2 Chr 9:3 (+11 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שְׁבָא n.pr.gent. et terr. Shebâ, in SW. Arabia (Sab. סבא DHMZMG xxxvii (1883), 9, סבא vb. = make campaign MordtHI 72 or expedition Sab.Denkm.No. 12, 1, 5, 14; cf. DSMargoliouth HastDB sheba F.B. Ency. Bib. sheba and reff.);—Sheba: מַלְכַּת־שׁ׳ 1 K 10:1, 4, 10, 13 = 2 Ch 9:1, 3, 9, 12; מַלְכֵי שׁ׳ ψ 72:10; famous for trade, רֹכְלֵי שׁ׳ Ez 27:22, 23, הֲלִיכֹת שׁ׳ Jb 6:19 (‖ תֵּמָא); yielding…