Sabie (Hastings' Dictionary)

'The children of Pochereth-hazzebaim ' (AV of Zebaim), Ezr 2", Neh 7°', appear as ' the sous of Phacereth the sons of Sabie ' in 1 £s 5**. SABTA (Ki?;c) or SABTAH (nnap).— Son of Cush, (.11 10' (A 2a/3a^d)^, 1 Ch P (B Xa^ard, A 2a^ofld, Luc. Zt^aOa). Glaser (Skizze, ii. 252) professes himself satisfied with the identification of this place with Dhu '1-Sabta, mentioned by the geo- grapher Al-Bekri (i. 65), who quotes a line oi an early poet, in which this is mentioned by the side of .

UAbatir, in the dwellings of the Banu Asad, jiobably in Yemamah. This identification is, lowuver, of very small value ; for the word Sabtau means either 'a rock' or 'a desert,' and Dhu '1- Sabta therefore 'the place with the rock,' or 'the place with the desert,' whence it is not even certain that the poet quoted really meant it for a proper name. Moreover, there is no sign of such a place ever having been of ini|>ortance.

Hence the con- jecture that it was to be identified with Sabat or I Sabbata in the Gulf of Adulis (Ptol. IV. vii. 8) it much more probable. Other conjectures made by ancient ami modern scholars are given in Gea. J'hes., the Oxf. Heb. Lex., and the Commentaries. D. S. Margououth.