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Bathsheba

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Bath·she·ba  (bth-shb, bthsh-)
In the Bible, the wife of Uriah and later of David. Her second son by David was Solomon.
Bathsheba [bæθˈʃiːbə ˈbæθʃɪbə]
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(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Old Testament the wife of Uriah, who committed adultery with David and later married him and became the mother of his son Solomon (II Samuel 11-12)
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Noun1.Bathsheba - (Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)
Old Testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible


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The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colours still unfaded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
, Titus Dates; Bathsheba, 710, the Duchess of Portsmouth; Barzillai, 817, the Duke of Ormond; Zadoc, 864, Archbishop Bancroft.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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