Lexicon
חָרִם
cha.rim
H2766
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Harim

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cha.rim is a proper name used for persons and “sons of” groups in biblical lists and family records.

The attested form is a proper name in roster-like contexts: it identifies groups called “sons of” the name, names a father, and occurs among named recipients of assignments and office-related lists.

Senses in use

  1. Proper name in family and list records · dominant

    All supplied tokens are tagged Noun · Proper. In Ezra 10:21 and Ezra 10:31, the form occurs in the clause identifying “the sons of” the name before individual names; in Nehemiah 3:11, the APB renders a worker as “Malchijah son of Harim.” Ezra 2:32 and Ezra 2:39 place such groups in numbered lists, while 1 Chronicles 24:8 names Harim as a recipient in an allotment sequence.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name directly in family and numbered-group phrases such as “sons of Harim,” and in Nehemiah 3:11 as “son of Harim.” In other list settings, including Nehemiah 10:6 and Nehemiah 12:15, it leaves the name within a sequence of names.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture