Sheariah (Hastings' Dictionary)

A descendant of Saul, 1 Ch 8« (I!A i;apoid. Luc. i;epid) 9« (BA 2opid, Luc. £aaptd). SHEARING-HOUSE, The (a-yiri ipjt n's ; B BaiSd- itaff Twv voifj.(i>wf, A BaiOdKaS t. it. ; Vulg. camera pantonim ; RV tr. 'shearing-house [lit. binding- liouse,' cf. Gn 22'J of the sliepherds,' KVm ' house of gathering [so Targ. but improbable] of the shepherds'). — A place at which Jehu, on his way from .lezreel to Samaria, met and slew the brethren of Ahaziah, king of Judah (2 K lO'^- ").

Eusehius and Jerome {Onum. s. Baitfoitdfl) place the shearing- house in the Great Plain (Esdraelon), 15 M.P. from Lcgio : and in this position, 3 m. east of Jcntn, is the village of Beit AV/rf (Hobinson, BRP' ii. 316). This is possibly the site of the shearing-liouse (Conder, PEF Mem. ii. 83). C. W. Wilson. 8HEAR-JASHUB (2>o; ik^ 'a remnant shall re- turn, l.W 6 KaTa\ei<p0eit'la(ro/'P, Is"').

— A symboli- cal name given to a son of Isaiah to signify the return of the remnant to God after the punishment at the hands of the As.syrianB. See 8" 10"- "', and cf. 7" 8'-\