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סַבְתְּכָא

𐤎𐤁𐤕𐤊𐤀

Savetekha

H5455 noun

SILEX Entry

Root uncertain uncertain, foreign personal name, territorial name

Definition

A personal and territorial name: the name of a descendant of Cush listed among the descendants of Ham in Genesis 10:7 and 1 Chronicles 1:9, and by implication, the name of the region settled by this group. The actual meaning of the name is unknown due to uncertain etymology.

Semantic Range

proper name of a Cushite descendant, name of a region or people group presumably in Africa or Arabia

Root / Etymology

Etymology uncertain; the word appears to be of non-Hebrew, likely foreign (possibly African or South Arabian) origin, transmitted into the Hebrew Bible through genealogical records. It is not transparently derived from any known Semitic Hebrew root.

Historical & Contextual Notes

The name סַבְתְּכָא (Sabteka/Sabteca) appears only in biblical genealogical lists identifying the descendants of Cush, son of Ham, who is ancestrally linked with regions south of Egypt in biblical tradition (i.e., parts of Africa, possibly near modern Sudan or Ethiopia). The designation marks both a person and, secondarily by biblical onomastics, the region or people group stemming from that ancestor. The presence in both Genesis and 1 Chronicles suggests an enduring, if somewhat schematic, place in Israelite memory of the nations. The exact historical location of the region associated with Sabteka remains uncertain, and later tradition does not firmly establish it. English translations typically transliterate the name, since its actual meaning and referent are unknown. This term should be distinguished from other descendants of Cush (such as Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sheba), each of which is associated with separate nations or regions in the Table of Nations.

Original Strong's Gloss (1890)

probably of foreign derivation; Sabteca, the name of a son of Cush, and the region settled by him; Sabtecha, Sabtechah.

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Root Family

uncertain (unknown) — uncertain, foreign personal name, territorial name

Strong's Lemma SIBI-P1
H1085 בִּלְדַּד Bildad
H1095 בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר Belteshatsar
H1114 בִּלְשָׁן Bilshan
H1150 בִּנְעָא Bin'a
H116 אֱדַיִן and then

Word Forms

1 distinct form

SIDANCE Surface Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1 Occurrences
H5455-01 וְ/סַבְתְּכָ֑א vesavetekha HC/Np and Sabteca and Sabteka 2

Occurrences in Scripture

2 total occurrences

SIDANCE Reference Word Transliteration Morphology Common SIBI-P1
H5455-01 Genesis 10:7 וְ/סַבְתְּכָ֑א vesavetekha HC/Np and Sabteca and Sabteka
H5455-01 1 Chronicles 1:9 וְ/סַבְתְּכָ֑א vesavetekha HC/Np and Sabteca and Sabteka
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