BATHSHEBA

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• BATHSHEBA (noun)
  The noun BATHSHEBA has 1 sense:

1. (Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)

  Familiarity information: BATHSHEBA used as a noun is very rare.

• BATHSHEBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

Domain category:

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)

 Context examples 

You remember the small affair of Uriah and Bathsheba?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)