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YYKTB 5,. 1 ~ ~ 9at 1 ~ the 1 end of the clanre should prrhaps
be p+ ' and Jerhua ' (a, corruption of Shua or Sheba).
Render, therefore, ' Tuhul, and . . . , and Jerahmeel,
and ]eihuaL (Sheba) scnt saying.' etc. But what ir the
name underlying Sarner? We see from Zechariah's
answer (Zech. is) that he was in some way ;I lender
and representative of the people. Wrl1hau5en (KI. P,.)
suspects that he may have been &rubbabel. This
cannot be correct: elsewhere Zechariah calls the governor
by his usual name. It has tlrrrefarekn suggested (col.
574) that [Bel-Irareier may be rhe same as Uelrar (an
impossible name till we add -eser=Bnb. urur), one of
the twelve (?) 'heads' oftheJews of Jud;ea(see GOYERN-
MENT, 5 26). according to a well-attested reading (on
Ezrazz Neh. 77 see BILSHAX). Plausible as thir view
is (cp MF~.ZAK), the coi~jecture reached elsewhere that
the principal captivity was really a N. Arabian and not
a Babylonian one, makes it prudent to revise it. Just
aj S~SERX [q.u.] comes most probably from Asrhur, so
Sarezer may he a corruption of Arshur or khuri. A
later editor, imperfectly informed, may well have
Assyrianired it, as W. M. Mliller rupporen an editor to
have Assyrianired 'Adrarnmelech.' On the objects of
the deputation to Zechariah, see Nowack, and cpim.
ReI. Llfr, 10, 17. See alro REGEM-MELECH.
T. K. C.
SHmN (v@? with an.; Is.339 o capwN
[BN'~AQ"I, asapu~
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(""1, o laapuv[Q*], Snron; Is. 352eom
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.rapuulrlimr [BAl, h acv. [LI, the Smonlte).
A plain of Palestine, extending from the Nahr e,
ZerkG 44 m. southward to the-mouth of the Nahr
Rubin. bv which and bv the Ramleh Hills lAbil
~hilrheh, .716 ft, in heiph) it ir divided from' the
Philirtian lai in. It war famous for its pastures (lCh.
2720 . , Is. 65rob and for its luxuriant vesetntion 11s. 36%.
Cant. 21). in describing the derolacon of iudah i
prophet of woe exclainlr, 'Sharon is like a desert' (Is.
3801. , The name Sharon ~ipnifier - 'level eountnr.' but
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thir only implies the absence of conrpicuour heiehts (cp
NAMES; 5 99 [6]). Undulating hili; occur ove;a la&
oarf of Sharon. Some ace well wood&. and there
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lodg extent of park-like scenery in the neighhourhood
of MukhPlid in the very N., 'where groups of
sindian, the ordinary oak of Palestine (Qucr~ur infccfo~ii;
see TEREBINTH) are dotted over the rolling
plateau of red remiLconsolidated sand ' (Conder. PEFQ,
1875, p. 92) There gioups of oaks are the representatives
of large oak groves. There ia Egyptological
evidence2 for a forest in ShaTOn, and only an extensive
woodland would justxfy the phrase in Is. 351. 'the
maenificence " 1,mI , of Carmel and Sharon.' The otherwise
strange expression of B in Ir. 65x0 (d 8pfibr=
ii,??), which agrees with the phraseology of Greek
writers, including Jorephm.3 is thus to be accounted
or. Nor muit we overlook the statement of the
Itinerary of King Richard ( 4 ~ respecting ) the forest
of Arsur. S. of the Salt River, through which the
Crusaders passed in lrgr A.D. to meet Saladin in
k"..,~ -...*. 4
The 'Plain of Sharon' is divided into three distinct
river basins-thore of the Nahr Zerka (with its wild
moorland and marshland), the Nahr el-Mfjir, and the
Nahr I~kander~neh (the Crusaders' Salt River). The
southernmost portion. which receives the Widyr Rudrur
and Salmsn, ir the most cultivated and atuactive; the
SHASHAK
view of it which the traveller obtains in springtime front
the Tower of Ramleh is highly enjoyable. Spring.
indeed, works a miracle in the aspect of this region.
The richest grass and the brighiest Rowers adorn the
landscape. Even in the marshlands the tall and graceful
papyrus (with which P'riedr. Delitzsch too boldly identifier
the Rose of Sharon) is, 10 its nuturnnal Hoaering
time, plearant to behold. There can be no doubt that
but for the encroaching sand the Plain of Shard" would
give a rich reward o the agriculturist, and the words of
Is. 6510 would be verified, ' Sharon shall be a fold for
flocks.'
&tIy a prorer6iaI ph;~se.
3. A region(0 on the E. of Jordm, occupied by the b'ne GAO
(8 11, &sin.), 1Ch.5161. e*'oepv, bur yrplw, whence
Kiltel lSBOT 'Chron.') deduces iW=lV,U. Sirion. Sranlev.
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SHARUHEU.(~~~~V: o! arpol AYT~N PAL]). a
Simeonite city in Judah (Josh. 196). generally thought
to be the SxILHlM (nn?w; c a ~ w [BI. C~A~EIM
[AL]), and SHAARNM (d!@; Sam. ti. 17srI rwN
nyhwN [RAL]: Ch. CEWPE~M [RA], C~APIM [LI) of
the correroondine lists in losh. l5rz (not 26) and I Ch.
43r. It plnuiible to ;upporethat shiruhen, not
Hebr0n.l is the place opposite which, on a hillLtop,
Srmson, according to legend, deposited the doors and
ports of one of the gates of Gaza (Judg. 163). Certainlya
spot in the SW. of Palertine is more likely than Hebron,
and Sharuhen has this recommendation: it had for a
second name (if I Ch. Lc, is correct) Shaaraim-ic.,
s the place of'a gate.' The legend war perhaps to
account for the name. We cannot point out the locality
intended : but it is tem~tiny . . to identify Sharuhen ilin,. ., ..
SharhBn ?) with Sarahan, a name which, in the Egyptian
inscriptionr, designates afortrerr of some importance on
the road from Egypt to Gaza. For a time Saraha~
was occupied by the Hyksor, and that brave warrior
Aahmer, whore tomb has furnished an account of the
war of liberation, took part in the siege of it (RP11)68,
Renouf: Brugsch, GA 132. CP 255). The place ir alro
mentioned in the Annals of Thotmes 111.. at the o~enine
of I,.. I:.m, z uII:~. u &a ill;l:n~ul,hcl I ). 11.1: grc..r
tntt:e of \Ily#ddo \V3l\l, ,lr a. Fur r for
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