Genesis 10:7: a Kushite or Ethiopian nation which Josephus believed to be Astabora (Antiquities 2:10:2), though other scholars believe it to have been Arkiko on the shore of the Arabian Gulf in what is today Eritrea.
1 Chronicles 1:9 gives it in its Aramaic/Chaldean form (וְסַבְתָּא), with an Aleph (א) instead of a Hey (ה). The same tribal family includes Seva (סְבָא), and Savtechah (סַבְתְּכָא), all three variations of the same root.
Seva, pronounced as Saba but spelled the same as the place named Seva, and Savtah, pronounced exactly the same as the place named here, are the Yehudit words for grandfather and grandmother, though this may be a complete coincidence.
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