Sharai appears among the list of Israelite men who had married foreign women during the exile and agreed to divorce them during Ezra's reforms. The name occurs in Ezra 10:40 in the catalogue of those who had intermarried contrary to the law's prohibition. The Greek versions offer various transliterations (Sariou, Saroue, Saroua) showing uncertainty in vocalization. Like others in this list, Sharai represents the postexilic community's struggle with maintaining ethnic and religious boundaries, ultimately yielding to the demand for separation from foreign wives to preserve covenant faithfulness.