Barsabe

English

Etymology

From 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

(archaic) Bathsheba
- c. 1611, Thomas Wyatt, Penitential Psalms,
  Love, to gyve law vnto his subiect hertes,
  
  Stode in the Iyes of Barsabe the bright

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