Sheba

Sheba (son of Raamah)

Mentioned in 2227 BC traditional (Jones)

Heb. shebha, the son of Raamah (Gen. 10:7), whose descendants settled with those of Dedan on the Persian Gulf.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Father: Raamah
Sibling: Dedan
Tagged in: 2 verses

The 14th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
Mentioned in the era of the Flood to Abraham, 2348–1997 BC.
Named in the same verses as Cush, Dedan, Havilah, Raamah, Sabtah, Sabtecha, and Seba.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 2252–2202 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

Genesis1
1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Sheba 34
KJV	Sheba 32
ASV	Sheba 33

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Genesis1 verse

10:7
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

1 Chronicles1 verse

1:9
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.