The Hebrew proper name Bat-Sheva (בַּת-שֶׁבַע) means 'Daughter of an oath' or 'Daughter of seven,' composed of bat (H1323, daughter) and sheva (H7651, seven/oath). She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of King David, and the mother of Solomon.
Bathsheba's story begins with one of Scripture's most devastating moral failures — David's adultery and complicity in Uriah's murder (2 Samuel 11). Nathan's confrontation and David's repentance (Psalm 51) flow from this crisis. Yet God's grace is strikingly on display: the child born of that sin dies, but Solomon — 'Jedidiah' (beloved of the LORD) — is born to Bathsheba and becomes Israel's wisest king. Bathsheba is named in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:6 — 'the wife of Uriah'), testifying that the Messiah's line runs through sin, grace, and redemption.