▪ SBʕ_1 ‘…’ ↗… ▪ SBʕ_2 ‘…’ ↗…♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘number seven, to make up a group of seven, to be the seventh; animals and birds of prey (this meaning is said to be derived from seven, which is considered a perfect and powerful number)’
▪ Several items in Eur langs derive from the Hbr cognate of Ar ↗sabʕ(aẗ). (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Shavuot, from Hbr šābûʕôt, pl. of šābûaʕ, ‘week’, from šebaʕ ‘seven’; shiva, from Hbr šibʕâ ‘seven’, f. of šebaʕ (see above)’. – Bathsheba, from Hbr bat šebaʕ ‘daughter of an oath’ (bat ‘daughter; cf. Ar bint); Elizabeth, from Hbr ʔĕlîšebaʕ ‘my God (is) an oath’ (ʔĕlî ‘my God; cf. Ar allāh); Beersheba, from Hbr bᵊʔēr šebaʕ ‘well of oath’ (bᵊʔēr ‘well’, cf. Ar biʔr); all from šebaʕ ‘oath’, from *šābaʕ ‘to swear’, possibly denom. from šebaʕ ‘seven’ (? < *‘to bind oneself with sevens’ in swearing oaths).