Sheerah is a woman in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' 1 Chronicles The Book of Chronicles ( , "words of the days") 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 section of the Jewish Tan ...

7:24, where it says that she built three cities: Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen-sheerah. According to

2 Chronicles The Book of Chronicles ( , "words of the days") 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 section of the Jewish Tan ...

8:5, Upper and Lower Beth-horon were rebuilt by Solomon as fortified cities. Sheerah was the daughter of

Ephraim Ephraim (; , in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath, as well as the adopted son of his biological grandfather Jacob, making him the progenitor of the Tribe of Ephrai ...

, and her brothers were Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Zabad, Beriah, Rephah, Resheph, Telah, Tahan, Ladan, Ammihud, Elishama, Nun, and Joshua. 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. David Frankel notes that Sheerah and her family were born and raised in Canaan during the same time period where all Israelites were allegedly enslaved in Egypt. He concludes that the author of the Book of Chronicles unintentionally preserved an ancient tradition of Israelite indigeneity to Canaan.

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