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SXESEACH ($@, as if humiliation.' cp PV .to
:rouch') in generally explained as a cypher-farm of
SHEPWPH~N (/?D*, 3 7s ; Gray. HPNgs, hut Babel' (Babylon), which indeed is given instead of
Sheshach' by Tg. (Jer. 25~65141). In Jer. 2526 the
the suggestion 'serpent' may he as fallacious as that
of 'rock-badger' for SHAPHAN ; another form is
whole clause. and in 5 1 ' ~ Sheshach,' is omitted in 6
SHEPHUPHIM), b. Bela b. BENJAMIN (8 la), I Ch. 85
Qmp, adds in 2526, xai poothdr riria~ €oxarar
~Gr&r, and in 51+1 il>rertr 6 rzoan) ; Cornill follo\vr
(cw+ap+an [B], c~+&N KAI axlph [A]. can-
6,
@&,&$ [Y). Cp -4HlRAM. SHtiPHO. SHUPHAM, SHLP- md so too Giesebrecht ie 51 rl. whereas in 25 m6 this
ichoiar retains ' Sherhach,' but regards wa. zi f as an
PlM, SHAI'HAN.
r~t~~~ol~tion. But would a late glossator acquainted
SHERAE. or rather, as RV, SHEERAH (71-SV, . ..
~ith the Afhbesh cypher (in which ~ =n, a=.. etc.) have
caapa [A], cdpaa [Ll; aB [€N EKEINOIC TOIC lied it in interpolating a prophecy ascribed to Jeremiah?
Kar&ho~no~c] and Pesh. connect with lKV, Niphal md what reason was there for uiine a crvotoeram? ,.
.to be left'), a ,daughter' of EPHRAIM (5 12) (I Ch. Enplica!ion deeerperee assurement '-(Renan, ~opport
7 ~ who ~ 'built' ~ ) the two Beth-horonr and UPZEN- rnnuei de ia $or. niiatiqur. 1871, p 26). As to 511r.
SHERAH (I Ch. 714b, a?$w]?r, RV UZZEN~SHEERAH). :here
~~ ~
can be no doubt that ' Sherhach' should he
I. . .,a eL pive3 vpc.do. (for vpoqa?). @a* maker Intitted ; it mars the beauty of the elegiac metre (see
Shela (v",~.,) ~"d Rephah 1s. 14) son3 of 4-u (UZ.~"). LAMBNTATION). TO pIOVe this let US put 5013 and
Conder suggests, as the rite, Bet Sir&, a village 2 m. 5lr1, both elegiac passages, side by side :-
SW. of the Lower Beth-horon (Mcm. 3x6). But on (a) How is cut ~under and broken I the whole earth's
we implicitly trust the name7 [The name Ephnim fixed
kmrncr 1
itself not 0n1y in central hut also in southern Palestine, How is become desolation I Babylon among the
"iiti~"~ !
where it is perhaps more original, and some of the (6) How ir lShe$=achl mkzn and surprised I the whole
names in the genealogy have an unmistakable N.
earth's prmrs I
Arabian affinity. Sheerah may, therefore, be a corrup- How ir bscome a dewlation I Babylon among the
nations !
tion of ,n!r ' Arhhur,' which turns out to be a N.
As to Jer. 2516. we must view the passage in connee-
A~abian tribe-name (ep Geshur). Heres in Ir-heres' :ion with the whole list of peoples in w. 18-26, and
(see HEXES, MOUNT) seems to have the same origin
:arefully niticire the text. The list begins with Judah.
(Crif. Bid.).-T. K. c.] Ebr (TX (Uzzen) we should
Next comes Misrim (so read; cp MIZRAIM). Arabia,
probably (cp '3%) substitute 7.y 'city,' and refer to
Judg. 135. Cp EPHRAIM, 5 11. Beth-shemesh or Irshemesh
isa curiously parallel name, if ,shemesh' comes
from .cilrhim' (see SHAAI.BIM). See, however. NAMES,
5 99, where 'ear (=earlike projection) of Sheerah' is
(5 9 [ii.]) : I Ch. 7r6.t See PsnEsH.
SHE&EZER(~YK~W). Zech. 7 zAV, KV SHAREZeR.2.
SHERIFFS (S',33R, 6 rak fa' i2ovatGuxard. ~bp~pou,
ol (T' ~(OYS. [also Theod.]). EV's rendering of a Bibl:
Aram. official title (such at least ir the prevailing
opinion) in Dan. 3 ~f. It has been generally connected
with the Ar. ~fti 'to advise' (whence the pnicipiul SHESHAN (IW, 9 58 ; some MSS. iW'W [Kenn.] ;
'mufti'), and accordingly translated 'counsellor' (cp
cwcam, CwCaN [?Is CWCbN [A], CICAN [Ll),
KVm8, .lawyers '). A still more far-fetched suggestion daughter married his servant JARHA (qv.) and became
is to read wnan=daaro~ 'consuls' ; for the n instead of the head of an interesting genealogical list ( r Ch. 234.41).
D Gratz (MG WI 19 irl) compares ~.R>OL~=+~A~~LOY. See JZRAHMEEL,~ 2 f Thenamesmay contain authentic
Another scholar says. 'possibly a mutilated form of a
Pers. title in pot "chief"' (Bevan. Don. 80). and
Andrear (Marti. Gram. Bid[.-Aram., Glossary] ruggertr
wnm, denfipfdvi, 'chiefs of religion.' Nor does this
of ,her variants wnim has probably coke from ay>n, ihrou~h
the intermediate form which occurs earlier m MT'r list,
unm3 'All the rul:rs of the province' is, of course. an
editorial insertion, the incorrcctnerr of which is shown by m. 4,
where the hemld addrerrer 'peoples, nations, and language\.'
Cp S*TRAPS. T. K. C.
SHESHAN
Zarephathim, . . . Edom. Moab, Ammon, Misgur (a
repetition, hid undcr ' Tyre and Zidon '), Dedan, Tema.
Bua. Zarephathim, Arabia (thrice), Curhanim, Zimri
;=Zimran), Jerahmeel (Elam and Madai), Zaphon,
lerahmeelim, Cush-jerahnleei (repetitions); then at the
zlose something which by editorial manipulation becnme
'and the king of Sheshach (7) shall drink after them.'
x.The view of huth that 'Sheshach' is il Hcbraiirtion of
>c?.ka, n Babylonian district which gave its nrrnc(?) toan nncicnt
~~gg~~ted as the possible meaning of Uzzen-sheerah ; cp
AzNorH-TABOR.
SHEREBIAE (~!ll~, 53% hut form reemsdoubtful.
C~~~BL~I~]), a porl~exilic priest nnd famil, (Ezrrars dpxijv
[BAl. iv & p ~ g apouLa lL1, a. 24 mpmra IBAI, Nch.8194 Habyloninn dyrmrty, according ro Pinches's reading (but see
~lpn~~n [B, where m+IIScaiepreiena Sn~saa~*n, rvBaca[Al, Pinches himself, TSBA, 188.. 48). is unrenmblc. WincLler
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