(She·re·biʹah) [possibly meaning “Jah [Has Sent] Parching Heat”].

1. A prominent Levite who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in 537 B.C.E.​—Ne 12:1, 8.

2. A Levite descended from Mahli; “a man of discretion” who was summoned to join Ezra on his  journey to Jerusalem in 468 B.C.E. (Ezr 8:17, 18) He is probably the same person as the ‘chief of the priests’ mentioned in Ezra 8:24, one of those entrusted with transporting to Jerusalem the valuable things contributed for temple use.​—Ezr 8:25-30.

3. A Levite who assisted Ezra with reading and explaining the Law to the people assembled in Jerusalem after the wall was rebuilt in 455 B.C.E. (Ne 8:2, 7, 8) Later the same month, they again convened and Sherebiah joined in proposing “a trustworthy arrangement,” which the nation ratified, promising to remain faithful to Jehovah. (Ne 9:1, 4, 5, 38) This Sherebiah may have been the same Levite as No. 2, personally attesting to the covenant, or he may have been a representative of some family by that name, perhaps descended from No. 1.​—Ne 10:1, 9, 12; 12:24.