Sheerah is a woman in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. Hebrew: ''Tān ...

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 Bethoron ( he, בֵית־חוֹרֹ֔ן, lit=house of Horon; grc, Ὡρωνείν), also Beth-Horon, was the name of two adjacent ancient towns strategically located on the Gibeon-Aijalon road, guarding the "ascent of Beth-Horon". The towns are ...

, and Uzzen-sheerah. Herbert Lockyer suggests that she "must have been a woman of physical power," while Antje Labahn and

Ehud Ben Zvi Ehud Ben Zvi (born 1951) is an Israeli Old Testament scholar. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, Classics and Religion at the University of Alberta. Ben Zvi studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Open University of I ...

note that "her prestige remained in the community" since one of the cities (Uzzen-sheerah) carried her name.Antje Labahn and

, "Observations on Women in the Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9," '' Biblica'' 84 (2003), 475.

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{{reflist Books of Chronicles people Women in the Hebrew Bible Mythological city founders