Sheerah is a woman in the
Hebrew Bible appearing only in
1 Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles ( he, דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third sect ...
7:24, where it says that she built three cities: Lower and Upper
Beth-horon, and
Uzzen-sheerah.
Herbert Lockyer suggests that she "must have been a woman of physical power," 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.
[Antje Labahn and Ehud Ben Zvi, "Observations on Women in the Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9," '' Biblica'' 84 (2003), 475.]
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Books of Chronicles people
Women in the Hebrew Bible
Mythological city founders