Personal name meaning, Jehovah contends. David’s royal scribe and thus probably functioning as a modern secretary of state Seraiah (2 Sam 8:17). The Hebrew tradition has various spellings of the name: Sheva, Sheya (2 Sam 20:25); Shisha (1 Kin 4:3), if this is not a Hebraic spelling of the Egyptian word for scribe; Shavsha (1 Chr 18:16).