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Sheerah in the Bible — Who Was Sheerah? | fresh.bible

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Sheerah

Ephraim's daughter who built three cities — one of the most slept-on figures in the Old Testament

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RoleDaughter of Ephraim (or his descendant Beriah)

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She built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah. A woman building cities in a genealogy full of warriors. She didn't just survive her family's tragedy — she constructed something that lasted.

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Genealogy Grief Identity

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Beriah Ephraim

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The Grief That Named a Son1 Chronicles 7:20-27

Sheerah is introduced here as Ephraim's daughter who built three cities — including one bearing her own name — making her one of the most remarkable and overlooked women in the Old Testament record.