It is certain that the Peshito has sometimes rendered the simple Greek plionay, by 'daughter of the voice,' as in Acts xii :22; I Tim. vi :20; Heb. iii :15.
(Mth'rab'bim), (Heb. bath-pab'bim, daughter of many), the name of one of the gates of the ancient city of Heshbon, near which were two pools to which Solomon compares the eyes of his "beloved" Cant. vii:4).
(loath'she'ba or bath'she-ba), (Fleb. bath-shekbah, daughter of the oath); also Bath-shua, daughter of Eliam, gland daughter of Allitophel, and wife of Uriah.
She was seduced and became pregnant by King David during the absence of her husband, who was then engaged at the siege of Rabbah (2 Sam. xi :4, 5 ; Ps. li :2). The child thus born in adultery became ill and died (2 Sam. xii : 15-18). After the lapse of the period of mourn ing for her husband, who was slain by the con trivance of David (xi :15), she was legally mar ried to the king (xi :27), and bore him Solomon (xii :24 ; r Kings i :II; ii :13). In I Chron. iii: 5 she is called Bath-shua instead of Bathsheba ; and her father, Ammiel, instead of Eliam (Comp. AIatt. i :6). The other children of Bathsheba are named in 2 Sam. v :14 ; I Chron. iii :5. She
is afterwards noticed only in consequence of her good-natured intercession for Adonijah; which in cidentally displays the respect with which she was treated by king Solomon, her son (i Kings ii :19).
(See DAVID; ADON1JAH,) The Rabbins describe Bathsheba as a woman of vast information and a highly cultivated mind, to whose education Solomon owed much of his wisdom and reputation, and even a great part of the practical philosophy embodied in his Pro verbs (see Prov. iv :3 ; xxxi).
(bath-shp'a), (Heb. bath shuh'ah, daughter of This name is translated "daughter of Shua" in Gen. xxxviii:12 and in I Chron. ii:3; but in I Chron. iii:5, it is used as the name of the mother of Solomon, and she is called the daughter of Ammiel (elsewhere Eliam). In Gen. XXXVi11:2, 12, Bath-shua is really the name of Judah's wife (B. C. io35), while Bath-sheba's original husband was a Hittite.
(bath-zaea-rrasl, a place near Bethsura celebrated for a battle fought be tween Antiochus Eupator and Judas Maccabxus (1 Alacc. vi:3o). Epiphanius says the prophet i Habakkuk was born in the territories of Bath zacharias