Sheba (2)

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from whom the country derives its name.
1. Grandson of Cush and son of Raamah (Gen_10:7).
2. Son of Joktan (Gen_10:28).
3. Grandson of Abraham by Keturah; son of Jokshan (Gen_25:3). This is an instance of the intermingling of the early descendants of Shem and Ham. SHEBA was a wealthy region of Arabia Felix or Yemen (1Ki_10:1; Psa_72:10; Psa_72:15, where "Sheba" is Joktanite, "SEBA" Cushite ; Job_1:15, the Keturahite Sheba, Job_6:19; Isa_60:6; Jer_6:20; Eze_27:22, it was the Sheba son of Raamah and grandson of Cush that carried on the Indian traffic with Palestine in conjunction with the Keturahite Sheba (Joe_3:8). The Sabeans were famed for myrrh, frankincense, and cinnamon, their chief city being Mariaba (Strabo 16:777), named also Seba, the one being the city the other the fortress (near the famous dyke el 'Arim, built to store water and avert mountain torrents.)
This was afterward the celebrated Himyeritic Arab kingdom, called from the ruling family of Himyer. The Cushite Sheba and his brother Dedan settled along the Persian gulf, but afterward were combined with the Joktanite Sabean kingdom. (See RAAMAH.) The buildings of Mariaba or Seba are of massive masonry, and evidently of Cushite origin. The Joktanites (Semitics) were the early colonists of southern Arabia. The Himyerites Strabo first mentions in the expedition of A. Gellius (24 B.C.); the Arabs however place Himyer high in their list. Himyer may mean "the red man," related to the "Red Sea" and "Phoenician." The kingdom probably was called "Sheba" (Seba means "turned red"), its reigning family Himyer; the old name was preserved until the founding of the modern Himyeritic kingdom about a century B.C.
"The queen of Sheba" (1Ki_10:1-2; 1Ki_10:10) ruled in Arabia, not Ethiopia, as the Abyssinian church allege; Sheba being in the extreme Sheba of Arabia, "she came (a distance of nearly a thousand miles) from the uttermost parts of the earth," as then known, to hear the wisdom of Solomon (Mat_12:42; Luk_11:31). Four principal Arab peoples are named: the Sabeans, Atramitae or Hadramaut, Katabeni or Kahtan or Joktan, and the Mimaei. SHEBA. A town of Simeon (Jos_19:2). Possibly the SHEMA of Jos_15:26. Now Saawe (Knobel). Or Sheba is a transcriber's error, repeating the end of Beer-sheba; for the number of names in Jos_19:2-6 including Sheba is 14, whereas 13 is the number stated, and in 1Ch_4:28 Sheba is omitted in the list of Simeon. But Conder (Palestine Exploration, January 1875) identifies Sheba with Tell el Seba, two miles of Beersheba, and on the line to Moladah (Jos_19:2); its well is a quarter of a mile W. of it.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


shē?ba (שׁבע, shebha‛; Σάβεε, Sábee, or Σάμαα, Sámaa): The name of one of the towns allotted to Simeon (Jos_19:2). the King James Version mentions it as an independent town, but as it is not mentioned at all in the parallel list (1Ch_4:28), and is omitted in Jos_19:2 in some manuscripts, it is probable that the Revised Version (British and American) is correct in its translation ?Beer-sheba or Sheba.? Only in this way can the total of towns in this group be made 13 (Jos_19:6). If it is a separate name, it is probably the same as SHEMA (which see).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.





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