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Headword:
*saba/
Adler number: sigma,2
Translated headword: Saba, Sheba
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place.[1]
"[He] will come out of Sheba."[2]
Greek Original:*saba/: to/pos. e)k *saba\ h(/cei.
Notes:
[1] A kingdom in the south of the Arabian peninsula with its capital at Marib, present-day Yemen.
[2] Adler compares Isaiah 60.6 LXX, "all will come out of Sheba". If the present quotation (missing from mss. AFV) is substantively different from that, it is unidentifiable.
Keywords: definition; geography; religion
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 4 May 2000@12:08:41.
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