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SEBA.—The eldest son of Cush in Gen_10:7 (1Ch_1:9), named along with Sheba in Psa_72:10, and with Egypt and Cush in Isa_43:8; Isa_45:14. In the latter passage its people are referred to as of high stature. A comparison with Isa_18:2 points to a supposed connexion with the tall Cushites or Nubians, though there is no evidence which directly associates either the people or the country with Nubia proper, in the region of the Nile. More specific seem to be the references by Strabo and Ptolemy to a seaport Saba and Sabat, near the modern Massowa on the west of the Red Sea. This location, nearly opposite the ancient Sheba, gives some colour to the hypothesis that Seba is an African differentiation of Sheba (wh. see), the latter being naturally the parent community.
J. F. McCurdy.