Bible Names

Sharezer: meaning of the name

Sharezer means “overseer of the treasury, or of the storehouse.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sharezer in Hebrew and Greek

שַׁרְאֶצֶר H8272

Sharʼetser (shar-eh'-tser) — Sharetser, the name of an Assyrian and an Israelite

of foreign derivation;

Who named Sharezer in the Bible

Sharezer in Scripture

“Sharezer” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 19:37

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

  • Isaiah 37:38

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar–haddon his son reigned in his stead.