Bible Person
Meaning: a going about or circuiting; old age · Male · 2 cross references
Sabtah is one of Cush's sons in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry for an ancestral name that helps map the spread of peoples after the flood. First appears in Gen 10:7.1
Name meaning
a going about or circuiting; old age
Identity
male
First appears
Gen 10:7
AI summary: Sabtah matters because his cross references place him within the Cushite branch of Genesis' account of the nations. Like similar entries, he broadens Scripture's horizon beyond Israel and preserves a remembered structure for neighboring peoples. Taken together, the material presents Sabtah as an ancestral marker in the Bible's ordered memory of the post-flood world.1
Central Figure
Sabtah
Meaning: a going about or circuiting; old age
Rest, the third son of Cush (Gen.
Name meaning
a going about or circuiting; old age
Identity
male
Rest, the third son of Cush (Gen. 10:7; 1 Chr. 1:9). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.