Sabean
שְׁבָאִיStrong’s H7615shevai (she-va-i)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shevai is the Hebrew word usually translated “sabeans”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Sheba who was a man of the Cushites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.7
How it's translated
- to sabeans 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁבָאִי shevai · Sabean
Someone descended from Sheba who was a man of the Cushites living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.7; son of: Raamah (H7484); brother of: Dedan (H1719B); also called Sabean at Job.1.15; 3x Group of she.va (שְׁבָא "Sheba" H7614) § Sabeans = "drunkard" or "he who is coming" the people of the nation of Sheba
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.