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Arabia vs Sheba - What's the difference?

arabia | sheba |

As proper nouns the difference between arabia and sheba

is that arabia is a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates while Sheba is an ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa.

arabia

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
  • (broader sense) the region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; includes Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.

    • Derived terms

    * Arabian * Arabia Felix

    Related terms

    * Arab * Arabic

    External links

    * (wikipedia "Arabia") ----

    sheba

    English

    (wikipedia Sheba)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical) An ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa.
  • * :
    • And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
  • (very, rare, outside the Bible) .
  • * :
    • And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba , the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
    Derived terms
    * Queen of Sheba

    Etymology 2

    Short form of Bathsheba.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1996 , Hotel Paradise , Headline, ISBN 0-7472-1538-3, page 172:
    • 'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.'