Sherrill, Edwin Jenner, a Congregational minis- ter, was born in Shoreham, Vt., Oct. 23, 1806. His pre- paratory studies were completed in Middlebury, after which he entered Hamilton College, N. Y., whence he was graduated in 1832. He spent two j'ears of study in Y'ale Theological Seminary, Mass., and one year at Andover Seminary. He was ortlained at Eaton, Que- bec, June 15, 1838, and continued in the pastoral charge of that church until November, 1873. Though not for- mally dismissed, he removed to Lee, Mass., in 1875. He diedin the city of New York, June 13, 1877. (W. P. S.)
Sherwood, Mary Martha, an English authoress, was born at Stanford, Worcestershire, July 6, 1775. In 1803 she married her cousin, Henry Sherwood, and ac- companied him in 1804 to India, where she instructed the children of his regiment. In 1818 they returned to England, and in 1821 settled at Wiukwar, Gloucester- shire, where they resided for the next twenty-seven years. Mrs. Sherwood's works number ninety volumes, of which mention is made of the following: Chronology of Ancient History: — Dictionary of Scripture Types, The remainder are largely works of fiction. See Ajiple- totis' Cyclop, s. V.
Shesh. See Linen; Marble; Silk.
She'shach {Hch. Sheshak , 'T\^'0, probably an artifi- cial word ; Sept.SEiri'fK v.r. 2/;(Trt)(),a term occurring only in Jeremiah (xxv, 26 ; li, 41), who evidently uses it as a synonym either for Babyism or for Babylonia. Accord- ing to the Jewish interpreters, followed by Jerome, it represents 3S3, " Babel," on a Cabalistic principle called " Athbash" well known to the later Jews — the substitu- tion of letters according to their position in the alpha- bet, counting backwards from the last letter, for those which hold the same numerical position counting in the ordinary way. See Cabala. Thus n represents N, IT represents 2, "i represents 3, and so on. It may well be doubted, however, whether this fanciful practice were as old as Jeremiah's time ; and even supposing that were the case, why should he use this obscure term here, when Babj-lon is called by its proper name in the same verse? C. B. Michaelis conjecture.s that "ITTIJ comes from ^TT^'i") shikshak; " to overlay with iron or other plates," so that it might designate Babylon as i^aX(co7ri;Xoc. Von Bohlen thinks the word synonymous with the Per- sian Shih-shah, i. e. "house of the prince;" but it is doubtful whether, at so early a period as the age of Jere- miah, Babylon could have received a Persian name that
would be known in Juda;a. Sir H. Rawlinson has observed that the name of the moon-god, which was identical, or nearly so, with that of the city of Abraham, Ur (or Hur), "might have been read in one of the an- cient dialects of Babylon as jShishaki," and that conse- (juently " a possible explanation is thus obtained of the Sheshach of Scripture" {Herod, i, 616). Sheshach may stand for Ur ; L'r itself, the old capital, being taken (as Babel, the new capital, constantly was) to represent the coinitry.
She'shai (Heb. Sheshay', "'ITir, iiMtish [Gesen.] or noble [Fiirst] ; Sept. Sfcrrri, v. r. 'S.ovi, "S-ovoai, 'Sefiei, etc.), the second named of the three sons of Anak who dwelt in Hebron (Numb, xiii, 22), and were driven thence and slain bv Caleb at the head of the children of Judah (Josh, xv, 14; Judg. i, 10). B.C. 1612.
She'shan (Heb. Sheshan', "jTliUJ, lily [Gesen.] or noble [Fiirst]; Sept. Soiaav v. r. ^ujaafi), a "son" of Ishi and "father" of Ahlai or Atlai, among the descend- ants of Jerahmeel the son of Hezron ; being a represent- ative of one of the chief families of Judah, who, in con- sequence of the failure of male issue, gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha (q. v.), his Egyptian slave, and through this union the line was perpetuated (1 Chron. ii, 31, 34, 35). B.C. post 1856.
Sheshbaz'zar (lieh.Sheshbatstsar',^^^^^^,{Tom the Persian for worshipper of fire [Von Bohlen], or the Sanscrit ga^vi^ar = " distinguished one" [ Luzzatto] ; Sept. 2rt(ja/Ja(Tap v. r. Y.ai'aliaaap, etc.), the ChaliUeaii or Persian name given to Zerubbabel (q. v.) in Ezra i, 8. 11 ; v, 14, 16, after the analogy of Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, Belteshazzar, and Esther. In like manner, also, Joseph received the name of Zaphnath-Paaneah, and we learn from Manetho, as quoted by Josephus (Apion, i, 28), that Moses' Egyptian name was Osar- siph. The change of name in the case of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah (2 Kings xxiii, 34; xxiv, 17) may also be compared. That Sheshbazzar means Zerul)babel is proved by his being called the prince (X'^CSv?) of Judah, and governor (HPIS), the former term marking him as the head of the tribe in the Jewish sense (Numb, vii, 2, 10, 11, etc.), and the latter as the Persian governor ap- pointed by Cyrus, both which Zerubbabel was; and yet more distinctly by the assertion (Ezra v, 16) that " Sheshbazzar laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem," compared with the promise to Zerubbabel (Zech. iv, 9), "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, his hands shall also finish it." It is also apparent from the mere com- parison of Ezra i, 11 with ii, 1, 2 and the whole histo- ry of the returned exiles. The Jewish tradition that Sheshbazzar is Daniel is utterly without weight. — Smith.