فَمَكَثَ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ فَقَالَ أَحَطتُ بِمَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِۦ وَجِئْتُكَ مِن سَبَإٍۭ بِنَبَإٍ يَقِينٍ
Quran glossary · draft
سَبَإ
Sheba
Sheba as a named place and the community inhabiting it.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: سبأ
Lemmas: سبإ
Forms: سَبَإٍۭ · سَبَإٍ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
لَقَدْ كَانَ لِسَبَإٍ فِى مَسْكَنِهِمْ ءَايَةٌ جَنَّتَانِ عَن يَمِينٍ وَشِمَالٍ كُلُوا۟ مِن رِّزْقِ رَبِّكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُوا۟ لَهُۥ بَلْدَةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ وَرَبٌّ غَفُورٌ
Why this meaning was chosen
Quran-internal review covered both occurrences of the proper name سَبَإ. In 27:22 the hoopoe reports coming from Sheba with certain news, followed by the account of a woman ruling its people; in 34:15 Sheba has a sign in its dwelling, two gardens and a good land, before the narrative of its ingratitude. Place-of-origin and communal-dwelling constructions converge on one named land-community referent. The identical genitive form supports one rendering. The aligned-reading field supplies no variant requiring a separate rule; no protected meaning was edited and no exact lexical collision was found.