Strong's H8272 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: שַׁרְאֶצֶר (Sharʼetser)

Pronunciation: shar-eh'-tser

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Sharezer or Sherezer = "prince of fire"

Derivation: of foreign derivation;

Definition: Sharetser, the name of an Assyrian and an Israelite

KJV Renderings: Sharezer.

Senses

1. son of king Sennacherib of Assyria and murderer of his father
2. an Israelite whom the people sent to the house of God to pray in the time of the prophet Zechariah and king Darius

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.