The baby name Bathshevah is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced Modern Hebrew: /batˈʃe.va/ (baht-SHEH-vah),Anglicized: /bæθˈʃiːbə/ (bath-SHEE-buh).
Bathshevah is Hebrew in Origin.
The baby name Bathshevah is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced Modern Hebrew: /batˈʃe.va/ (baht-SHEH-vah),Anglicized: /bæθˈʃiːbə/ (bath-SHEE-buh).
Bathshevah is Hebrew in Origin.
Bathshevah is a rare Anglicized-Hebraic form of Bathsheba/Batsheva, from Hebrew Bat-Sheva, literally "daughter of seven." The first element bat means "daughter," while sheva denotes the number seven and evokes ideas of fullness and completion. Some interpreters connect the second element with shevuah, "oath," yielding the alternative sense "daughter of the oath." The -v- reflects Ashkenazi pronunciation where the soft bet is rendered v, and the final -h mirrors older English biblical spellings.
The name appears in the Hebrew Bible: Bathsheba becomes King David's wife and Solomon's mother. It saw sporadic use in 17th-century Puritan England, a modest Victorian revival, and modern Israeli circulation mainly under the spelling Batsheva. Variants include Bathsheba, Batsheva, Bat-Sheva, Bas-Sheva (Yiddish/Ashkenazi), and Bat Sheva; diminutives Sheva and Shevy are common. Bathshevah itself remains unusual today, appreciated by parents seeking a rooted yet distinctive biblical name.
We have no record of Bathshevah in any national birth registry or name dataset. That's typically a sign of a rare name, a regional or traditional one, or a modern coinage. By any reading, it's an exceptionally uncommon choice.
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