"Bathsheba" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /bæθˈʃiːbə/ [UK]
Etymology: From Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|he|בַּת שֶׁבַע|t=daughter of an oath|tr=bat shéva'}} Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), {{af|he|בַּת|שֶׁבַע|nocat=1|t1=daughter|t2=oath|tr1=bát|tr2=shéva}} בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bathsheba
  1. In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David. (biblical character) Categories (topical): Biblical characters, Individuals Translations (biblical character): 巴特舍巴 (baa¹ dak⁶ se³ baa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 拔示巴 (bat⁶ si⁶ baa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 巴特舍巴 (Bātèshèbā) (Chinese Mandarin), 拔示巴 (Báshìbā) (Chinese Mandarin), Batšeba [feminine] (Czech), Betsabé [feminine] (Czech), Bat-šúa [feminine] (Czech), Batseba [common-gender] (Danish), Batseba [feminine] (Faroese), Batseba (Finnish), Bethsabée [feminine] (French), Bathseba (German), Batseba (German), Βηρσαβεέ (Virsaveé) [feminine] (Greek), Batseba (Greenlandic), בת שבע (Hebrew), Betsabea [feminine] (Italian), Bethsābē [feminine] (Latin), Ɓatsheɓa (Maore Comorian), Batszeba [feminine] (Polish), Bate-Seba [feminine] (Portuguese), Вирса́вия (Virsávija) [feminine] (Russian), Betsabé [feminine] (Spanish), Batseba (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Bathsheba-en-name-DQHVlFhQ Disambiguation of Biblical characters: 83 17 Disambiguation of Individuals: 77 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20 Disambiguation of 'biblical character': 81 19
  2. (uncommon) A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Translations (female given name): Betsabea (Esperanto), Bethsabée [feminine] (French), Betsabé (Galician), Bassi (Greenlandic), בת שבע (Hebrew), Betsabea (Italian), Batszeba [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-Bathsheba-en-name-7Qkxf7PI Disambiguation of 'female given name': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Bathshua

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.