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.
Herbert Lockyer suggests that she "must have been a woman of physical power,"[1] 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.[2]
References[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Books of Chronicles people
- Women in the Hebrew Bible
- Mythological city founders