SEBUS

Lehite GN

1.

Waters in land of Ishmael, ca. 90 BC (Alma 17:26; 19:21)

SEBUS could mean “place of gathering,” from a root in West Semitic sbs, which means “to gather/assemble (persons).” It appears as an Aramaic loan word in Neo-Babylonian texts once each as a verb, us-sa-ab-bi-is, and as an adjective, su-ub-bu-su-tu. This root may be reflected in Amos 5:11, where the hapax legomenon שבס apparently means collecting of a grain payment. The vowels would seem to follow the seldom used nominal pirūs form.

Cf. Biblical Seba, Sebat