6 others in the registry answer to the name Sheba. Every Sheba in the Bible
person · also Sabean
Sheba
שְׁבָא
The Sabeans, descendants of Cush, were known for their wealth, trade in spices and precious stones, and were mentioned in various contexts throughout the Old Testament.
- verses
- 6
- first named
- Genesis 10:7
- last named
- Joel 3:8
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Sheba?
The Sabeans, also known as Sheba, are mentioned in several passages in the Old Testament (Gen.10.7; 1Ch.1.9; Job.1.15; Jol.3.8; Isa.45.14; Ezk.23.42). They were descendants of Cush, the son of Ham, and were known for their wealth and extensive trade. The Sabeans were associated with the region of Sheba, located in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, in modern-day Yemen. They were renowned for their trade in spices, gold, precious stones, and other luxury goods. In the book of Job, the Sabeans are mentioned as raiders who attacked and plundered Job's livestock, highlighting their military prowess. The queen of Sheba, who visited King Solomon, was likely a ruler of this kingdom, emphasizing the Sabeans' prominence and wealth. The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel also mention the Sabeans in the context of trade and their association with luxury items. The Sabeans played a significant role in the ancient Near Eastern trade network and were known for their prosperity and influence in the region.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Sheba is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
6 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Job (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1) and Joel (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 6, across 6 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Job 1The Sabeans swooped down on Job’s oxen and donkeys, killed the servants, and left one messenger alive.
- Isaiah 45The Sabeans come over in chains, bow down, and confess that there is no other God.
- Joel 3The Sabeans are named as the distant nation to which the sons and daughters of Judah's enemies will be sold.
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