Σαβά

Saba, Sheba

Translated by Alex Gottesman4 May 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

2 notes · 8 words

Translation

A place.1
"[He] will come out of Sheba."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σαβά· τόπος. ἐκ Σαβὰ ἥξει.

Betacode
*saba/: to/pos. e)k *saba\ h(/cei. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1A kingdom in the south of the Arabian peninsula with its capital at Marib, present-day Yemen. ↩
  2. 2Adler 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. ↩

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Revision history8 revisions · last 25 May 2016
  1. coding — David Whitehead
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. expanded n.2; tweaks; raised status — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. added note — Nicholas Fincher
  7. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. added headword translation, note, and keyword — Catharine Roth
  9. Translated — Alex Gottesman

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