Barsabe

English

Etymology

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

Barsabe

  1. (obsolete) Bathsheba
    • c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711‎, page 86r:
      Love to gyve law vnto his ſubiect hertes
      ſtode in the Iyes off barſabe the bryght

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