בַּת־שֶׁ֫בַע
Bath-sheba
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Bath-sheba’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Proper 14 times (64%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (36%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 22 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1339 appears — 11 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 11:3 בַּת שֶׁ֣בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs David send and inquired after the woman. One said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
- 2 Samuel 12:24 בַּת שֶׁ֣בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
1 Kings 8 verses
- 1 Kings 1:11 בַּת שֶׁ֤בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Haven't you heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith reigns, and David our lord doesn't know it?
- 1 Kings 1:15 בַת שֶׁ֤בֶע n Proper n Proper Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
- 1 Kings 1:16 בַּת שֶׁ֔בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?
- 1 Kings 1:28 לְ/בַת שָׁ֑בַע prep + n Proper n Proper Then king David answered, Call to me Bathsheba. She came into the king's presence, and stood before the king.
- 1 Kings 1:31 בַּת שֶׁ֤בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.
- 1 Kings 2:13 בַּת שֶׁ֨בַע֙ n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. She said, Come you peaceably? He said, Peaceably.
- 1 Kings 2:18 בַּת שֶׁ֖בַע n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
- 1 Kings 2:19 בַת שֶׁ֨בַע֙ n Proper adj Cardinal number fs Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
Psalms 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Bath-sheba” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בתשבע (Bath-Shebaʻ). More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 1 Kings. It appears 11 verses across 3 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at 2 Samuel 11:3, it then recurs through the corpus. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1339 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,412
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,412 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 91%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bathsheba 10×
- American Standard Version: Bath-sheba 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bathsheba 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bathsheba 20×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1339 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1339 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1339 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1339 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Bath-sheba = "daughter of an oath"
- the wife of Uriah whom David had murdered…
Word origin
n.pr.f. (daughter of oath? cf. אֱלִישֶׁ֫בַע) wife of Uriah 2 S 11:3 ψ 50:2; afterwords of David, & mother of Solomon 12:24 1 K 1:11, 15, 16, 31; 2:13, 18, 19; בַּת־שָׁ֑בַע 1 K 1:28; cf. also foll.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בת (bath) (H1323) — daughter.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H1339 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּת | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:11 | 8 |
| בַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:15 | 2 |
| שֶׁ֣בַע | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 11:3 | 2 |
| שֶׁ֤בַע | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 1:11 | 2 |
| שֶׁ֨בַע֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 2:13 | 2 |
| לְ/בַת | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:28 | 1 |
| שֶׁ֔בַע | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 1:16 | 1 |
| שֶׁ֖בַע | Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 2:18 | 1 |
| שֶׁ֤בֶע | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:15 | 1 |
| שָׁ֑בַע | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 1:28 | 1 |
| שָֽׁבַע | Noun, Proper | Psalms 51:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1339, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Bath-sheba). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Daughter of the oath, or of seven, called also Bath-shu'a (1 Chr. 3:5), was the daughter of Eliam (2 Sam. 11:3) or Ammiel (1 Chr. 3:5), and wife of Uriah the Hittite. David committed adultery with her (2 Sam. 11:4, 5; Ps. 51:1). The child born in adultery died (2 Sam. 12:15-19). After her husband was slain (11:15) she was married to David (11:27), and became the mother of Solomon (12:24; 1 Kings 1:11; 2:13). She took a prominent part in securing the succession of Solomon to the throne (1 Kings 1:11, 16-21).
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the seventh daughter; the daughter of satiety
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
