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title: שֶׁאֱרָה — Sherah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֶׁאֱרָה (7609), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Sherah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֶׁאֱרָה

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«שֶׁאֱרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sherah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7609 · **BDB:** שֶׁאֱרָה

### Glosses

\[was\].Sheerah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sherah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7609/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7609/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. ‘daughter’ of Ephraim;—בִּתּוֹ שׁ׳ 1 Ch 7:24 (v. also n.pr.loc. אֻזֵּן שׁ׳ p. 25a supr.); 𝔊b ἐκείνοις τ. καταλοίποις, but 𝔊L (cf. 𝔊a) ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ Σαραα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֶׁאֱרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7609/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 7:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.24/)

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וּבִתּ֣וֹ שֶׁאֱרָ֔ה וַתִּ֧בֶן אֶת־בֵּית־חוֹר֛וֹןבֵּית־חוֹר֛וֹן הַתַּחְתּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־הָעֶלְי֑וֹן וְאֵ֖ת אֻזֵּ֥נ שֶׁאֱרָֽה אֻזֵּ֥נ שֶׁאֱרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and daughter his \[was\].Sheerah and she.built (et) Beth Horon (the) lower and (et) (the) upper and (et) Uzzen Sheerah

*JPS 1917:* And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

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