# Zabibe

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Queen of Qedar (738–733 BC)

Zabibe Queen of Qedar Reign c. 750s–735 BCE Predecessor Unknown Successor Possibly Samsi Born c. early 8th century BCE Religion North Arabian polytheism

**Zabibe** (also transliterated **Zabibi**, **Zabiba**,[1] **Zabibah**; [Akkadian](/source/Akkadian_language): 𒍝𒁉𒁉𒂊 *Zabibê*) was a queen of [Qedar](/source/Qedar) who reigned for five years between 738 and 733 BC. She was a vassal of [Tiglath-Pileser III](/source/Tiglath-Pileser_III), [king of Assyria](/source/Assyrian_empire), and is mentioned in the Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III among a list of monarchs who paid tribute to the king in 738 BC.[2][3] The title accorded her is queen of the Aribi ([Arabs](/source/Arabs)).[4] Israel Eph'al argues that, until the time of [Assurbanipal](/source/Assurbanipal), the title "king or queen of the Arabs" in Assyrian manuscripts was a general one accorded to leaders of the [nomadic](/source/Nomad) [Bedouin](/source/Bedouin) tribes of the Syrian desert.[4] So, he infers that Zabibe would have been properly titled "queen of the Qidri" ([Qedarites](/source/Qedarites)). Zabībah is an ancient [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language) name, likely derived from *zabīb* (*arabic: زبيب*), meaning "[raisin](/source/Raisin)".[5] She was succeeded by another queen, [Samsi](/source/Samsi), who also reigned for five years. She is described in [Neo-Assyrian](/source/Neo-Assyrian_Empire) sources as the ruler of an Arab kingdom centred on the oasis city of Adummatu — present-day [Dumat al-Jandal](/source/Dumat_al-Jandal) in northern [Saudi Arabia](/source/Saudi_Arabia) — which served as the political and religious capital of the [Qedarites](/source/Qedarites) during the 8th century BC.[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Avraham Negev, Shimon Gibson *Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land* · 2005 p 41 "Zabiba, Queen of Arabia, paid tribute to Tiglath - Pileser III . Sargon II recorded how he subdued the Arabs “ who live far away, ” exiling some to distant * Samaria and imposing on the others a tax of gold powder, precious stones"

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Eph'al (1982): 82.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Trevor Bryce *The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms* 2012 p27 "Zabibe, queen of the Arabs - This, the only reference we have to an Arabian queen called Zabibe, belongs within the context of agreements which both the Assyrians and the Babylonians made with Arabian nomads 'to maintain important trade ..."

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Ephal83_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Ephal83_4-1) Eph'al (1982): 83.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Eph'al (1982): 82, n247.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-BMEsarhaddon_6-0)** ["The Esarhaddon Prism"](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1929-1012-1). *British Museum collection*. Retrieved 2026-05-22.

## Bibliography

- Ephʻal, Israel (1982). [*The Ancient Arabs: Nomads on the Borders of the Fertile Crescent 9th-5th Centuries B.C*](https://books.google.com/books?id=2-QO9Noo-ygC). Brill. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-965-223-400-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-965-223-400-1).

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