שֵׁרֵֽבְיָה
Sherebiah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8274 appears — 8 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 2 verses
- Ezra 8:18 וְ/שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֛ה conj + n Proper According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;
- Ezra 8:24 לְ/שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֣ה prep + n Proper Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
Nehemiah 6 verses
- Nehemiah 8:7 וְ/שֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה conj + n Proper Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place.
- Nehemiah 9:4 שֵׁרֵבְיָ֖ה n Proper Then stood up on the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
- Nehemiah 9:5 שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֤ה n Proper Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
- Nehemiah 10:12 שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֖ה n Proper Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
- Nehemiah 12:8 שֵׁרֵבְיָ֖ה n Proper Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
- Nehemiah 12:24 שֵֽׁרֵבְיָ֜ה n Proper The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Sherebiah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name שרביה (Shêrêbᵉyâh). It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 75% of its uses. It turns up in 8 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Ezra 8:18, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8274 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sherebiah 8×
- American Standard Version: Sherebiah 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sherebiah 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sherebiah 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8274 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8274 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8274 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8274 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Sherebiah = "Jehovah has scorched"
- a Levite who assisted Ezra at the reading of the Law and who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
Word origin
n.pr.m. a Levite with Ezra (? י׳ hath sent burning heat; or cp. Syriac ܫܪܒ Pa. propagavit);—Σαραβια(ς): Ezr 8:18, 24; Ne 8:7; 9:4, 5; 10:13; 12:8, 24.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרב (shârâb) (H8273) — parched ground.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H8274 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֵׁרֵבְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 9:4 | 2 |
| וְ/שֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 8:7 | 1 |
| וְ/שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:18 | 1 |
| לְ/שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:24 | 1 |
| שֵֽׁרֵבְיָ֜ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:24 | 1 |
| שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:12 | 1 |
| שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 9:5 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sherebiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Flame of the Lord, a priest whose name is prominent in connection with the work carried on by Ezra and Nehemiah at Jerusalem (Ezra 8:17, 18, 24-30; Neh. 8:7; 9:4, 5; 10:12).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(heat of Jehovah) a Levite in the time of Ezra. (Ezra 8:18,24) (B.C. 459.) When Ezra read the law to the people, Sherebiah was among the Levites who assisted him. (Nehemiah 8:7) He signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:12)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
singing with the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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