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say it: bath-SHEE-buh
bathsheba is a noun meaning "(Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)". It is pronounced /bæθˈʃibə/ — bath-SHEE-buh. It carries one recorded sense.
(Old Testament) the wife of Uriah and later the wife of king David; Solomon was her son by David (circa 10th century BC)
Old Testament
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bathsheba come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.