Barsabe
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Barsabe, from Latin Bathsabee in Jerome’s Vulgate, which is from Hebrew בַּת שֶׁבַע (bat shéva', “daughter of an oath”), from בַּת (bát, “daughter”) + שֶׁבַע (shéva, “oath”).
Proper noun
[edit]Barsabe
- (obsolete) Bathsheba
- c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711[1], page 86r:
- Love to gyve law vnto his ſubiect hertes
ſtode in the Iyes off barſabe the bryght