Hebrew word · H7841

שְׁחַרְיָה

ushecharyah

Shehariah

It is built from the root sh-ch-r plus -yah (YHWH). The noun shachar means 'dawn'. The related verb shichar means 'to seek earnestly' (literally, 'to look for at first light'). So the name means either 'Yah is dawn' or 'Yah has sought / is sought'.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. · Updated November 07, 2026

What it means

A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.8.26;

son of: Jeroham (H3395H);

brother of: Shamsherai (H8125), Athaliah (H6271H), Jaareshiah (H3298), Elijah (H0452H) and Zichri (H2147J)

§ Shehariah = "dawning of Jehovah"

a Benjamite, son of Jehoram

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 8:26

Range of meaning: It is built from the root sh-ch-r plus -yah (YHWH). The noun shachar means 'dawn'. The related verb shichar means 'to seek earnestly' (literally, 'to look for at first light'). So the name means either 'Yah is dawn' or 'Yah has sought / is sought'.
Against the English: English transliterates it as 'Shehariah' (or 'Shechariah'). The meaning is hidden, as it is with all transliterated names.
Used elsewhere in the period: It appears only here. Names built with shachar are known elsewhere, for example Shaharaim in 1 Chronicles 8:8 of this same Benjaminite list.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

1 Chronicles 8:26 וּשְׁחַרְיָ֖ה and Shechariah

Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,

Here: The second son of Jeroham. The name ends in -yah, a short form of God's name YHWH, so it is a confession of faith. It probably means 'Yah is the dawn' or 'Yah has sought'. This is the only person in the Bible with this name.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.