Bathsheba
בַּת־שֶׁ֫בַעStrong’s H1339bat-sheva (bat-she-va)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bat-sheva is the Hebrew word usually translated “bath-” and “-sheba”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
Meaning
- A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.11.3
How it's translated
- bath- 11
- -sheba 11
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 8
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 12:24And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.
- 1 Kings 1:11Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?
- 1 Kings 1:15And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
- 1 Kings 1:16And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
- 1 Kings 1:28Then king David answered and said, Call me Bathsheba. And she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king.
- 1 Kings 1:31Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּת־שֶׁ֫בַע bat-sheva · Bathsheba
A woman living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.11.3; daughter of: Eliam (H0463); married to David (H1732) and Uriah (H0223A); mother of: Shammua (H8051H), Shobab (H7727), Nathan (H5416) and Solomon (H8010); also called Bath-shua at 1Ch.3.5; Also named: bat-shu.a (בַּת־שׁוּעַ "Bath-shua" H1340) § Bath-sheba = "daughter of an oath" the wife of Uriah whom David had murdered, having had adulterous relations with her; subsequently wife of David and mother of Solomon, Shimea, Shobab, and Nathan
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ATH, noun
- A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in.
- A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance.
- A house for bathing.
- A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.