Bible Person

Sabtah

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

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