Bathsheba

American  

[bath-shee-buh, bath-shuh-] / bæθˈʃi bə, ˈbæθ ʃə- /

noun

1. (in the Bible) the wife of Uriah and later of David: mother of Solomon.

2. a first name: from a Hebrew phrase meaning “daughter of the oath.”

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Bathsheba British  

/ bæθˈʃiːbə, ˈbæθʃɪbə /

noun

1. Old Testament the wife of Uriah, who committed adultery with David and later married him and became the mother of his son Solomon (II Samuel 11–12)

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Bathsheba Cultural  

1. A beautiful woman who attracted King David. To marry her, he sent her husband Uriah to his death in battle. Solomon was her second son by David.

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Example Sentences

KALUSALE, Zambia—The worst day of Bathsheba Musole’s life started with a deafening crash when the 30-foot wall around a toxic-waste pool collapsed at the Chinese copper mine above her village.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

"I saw her as Bathsheba, the character she was playing, who all the men in the film fell in love with. But it wasn't hard, with somebody like Julie."

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

Bathsheba Crocker, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, urged Syria to grant unhindered access for humanitarian aid to besieged areas and release people "arbitrarily imprisoned and held without trial".

From Reuters • Jan. 24, 2022

Determined to alleviate “the sting of being erased,” she secretly writes the lost histories of Eve, Bathsheba, Jezebel and other nasty women.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2020

Bathsheba yanked her son back into the hut.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz