Entry № 9557 · Hebrew origin

Sherah Sherah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Builder of cities (Ephraim's daughter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "builder of cities (ephraim's daughter)".

Sherah (שֶׁאֱרָה) means "flesh-kin" or "close relation" in Hebrew. In 1 Chronicles 7:24, Sherah was the daughter of Ephraim who built three cities: Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-sherah — one of only a handful of women in the Bible recorded as building cities.

Sherah is rare but iconic in biblical scholarship for her construction achievements.

Built three cities. The only biblical female city-builder.

The name in its native script.

שֶׁאֱרָה
Transliteration
Šeʾĕrāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɛr.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sherah stands.

Sherah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sherahs before her.

Real people
Sherah
Ephraim's daughter, city-builder.
In fiction
Sherah
1 Chronicles 7:24.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Sherah.

The number behind Sherah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sherah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.