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 in the Book of Ezra — 2 distinct verses. 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
- 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,
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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