Sheerah
Sheerah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible appearing only in 1 Chronicles 7:24, where it says that she built three cities: Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. She is the daughter of Ephraim, and her brothers are Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Zabad, Beriah, Rephah, Resheph, Telah, Tahan, Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama, Nun, and Joshua. [1]
Herbert Lockyer suggests that she "must have been a woman of physical power,"[2] while Antje Labahn and Ehud Ben Zvi note that "her prestige remained in the community" since one of the cities (Uzzen-sheerah) carried her name.[3]
References
- ^ "1 Chronicles 7 - NIV Bible - The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub and Shimr..." biblestudytools.com. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
- ^ Herbert Lockyer, "Sherah, Sheerah".
- ^ Antje Labahn and Ehud Ben Zvi, "Observations on Women in the Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9," Biblica 84 (2003), 475.