Entry № 1293 · Hebrew origin

Batsheva Batsheva — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ baht-SHEH-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Daughter of the oath (biblical + Batsheva Dance Company Israel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "daughter of the oath (biblical + batsheva dance company israel)".

Batsheva is from the Hebrew bat (daughter) + sheva (oath/seven) — daughter of the oath. Bathsheba (c. 1000 BCE) was the biblical wife of King David and mother of King Solomon (2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 1-2) — one of the queen mothers in biblical history. The Batsheva Dance Company (founded 1964 by Bethsabée de Rothschild and Martha Graham) is widely considered Israel's contemporary dance company — led by Ohad Naharin since 1990. figure in modern Israeli cultural identity.

Daughter of the oath (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

בַּת שֶׁבַע
Transliteration
Bat Sheva
Pronunciation
/ bɑːtˈʃɛ.və /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Batsheva stands.

Batsheva does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Batshevas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Bathsheba
Biblical wife of King David.

Names connected to Batsheva.

The number behind Batsheva.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Batsheva reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.