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Seba
SEBA (sē'ba, Heb. sevā’). A people descended from Cush (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(cebha’; Saba (
1. Forms of Name, and Parentage of Seba:
The first son of Cush, his brothers being Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabtecha. In
2. Position of the Nation:
Their country is regarded as being, most likely, the district of Saba, North of Adulis, on the west coast of the Red Sea. There is just a possibility that the Sabi River, stretching from the coast to the Zambesi and the Limpopo, which was utilized as a waterway by the states in that region, though, through silting, not suitable now, may contain a trace of the name, and perhaps testifies to still more southern extensions of the power and influence of the Sebaim. (See Th. Bent, The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland, 1892.) The ruins of this tract are regarded as being the work of others than the black natives of the country. Dillmann, however, suggests (on
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