Uzzen-Sheerah

UZZEN-SHEERAH.—See Sheerah.

uz´en-shē´ḗ-ra (שׁארה אזּן, ’uzzēn she’ĕrāh; Septuagint, instead of a place-name, reads καὶ υἱοῖ Ὀζάν, Σεηρά, kaı́ huioı́ Ozán, Seērá, “and the sons of Ozan, Sheera”; the King James Version Uzzen-sherah, uzzen-she’ra): As it stands in Massoretic Text this is the name of a town built by Sheerah, daughter of Ephraim, to whom is attributed also the building of the two Beth-horons (1Ch 7:24). No satisfactory identification has been proposed. Septuagint suggests that the text may have been tampered with.