Bible Names

Sheba: meaning of the name

Sheba means “captivity; old man; repose; oath.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sheba in Hebrew and Greek

שְׁבָא H7614

Shᵉbâʼ (sheb-aw') — Sheba, the name of three early progenitors of tribes and of an Ethiopian district

of foreign origin;

שֶׁבַע H7652

shebaʻ (sheh'-bah) — Sheba, the name of a place in Palestine, and of two Israelites

the same as H7651 (שֶׁבַע); seven;

People named Sheba in the Bible

Places named Sheba

Sheba in Scripture

“Sheba” appears in 32 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 10:7

    And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

  • Genesis 10:28

    And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

  • Genesis 25:3

    And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

  • Joshua 19:2

    And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,

  • 2 Samuel 20:1

    And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

  • 2 Samuel 20:2

    So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Samuel 20:6

    And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.

  • 2 Samuel 20:7

    And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.