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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.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added headword translation, note, and keyword) on 28 October 2001@00:43:04.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 28 October 2001@05:21:15.
Nicholas Fincher (added note) on 17 July 2003@05:28:12.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 17 July 2003@07:57:09.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 3 May 2011@07:39:22.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; tweaks; raised status) on 19 June 2011@06:25:26.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 23 September 2014@01:05:35.
David Whitehead (coding) on 25 May 2016@08:45:39.

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