Sheba is from the Hebrew Sheba (שְׁבָא — promise / oath). A modern American baby name in the broader Hebrew-Ethiopian heritage aesthetic. The Queen of Sheba is one of the most-foundational biblical-historical female figures — visiting King Solomon in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10, 2 Chronicles 9) — a foundational episode in Jewish, Christian, Islamic (as Bilqis in the Quran), and Ethiopian religious traditions. In Ethiopian tradition she is Queen Makeda (c. 1000 BCE), the foundational ancestress of the Solomonic dynasty that ruled Ethiopia for nearly 3,000 years until Haile Selassie's deposition in 1974. Central to the Ethiopian national epic Kebra Nagast (14th c.) — the foundational text of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. Subject of Handel's oratorio Solomon (1748) and countless Renaissance paintings.
Featured throughout biblical heritage and Ethiopian tradition.
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Sheba reduces to seven.