a.va.rim is the proper name of a mountain region, named as a place of ascent, encampment, and proclamation.

The term is consistently a proper place name for a mountain region: people go up from it or camp in its mountains, and it is also named as the place from which a cry is raised.

1. Mountain region named in travel and ascent · dominant

   In Numbers 33:47 and Numbers 33:48, the proper noun identifies mountains from which the travelers camp and then depart. In Numbers 27:12 and Deuteronomy 32:49, the APB renders commands to go up a mountain of this region in order to see the land.

   Numbers 33:47Numbers 33:48Numbers 27:12Deuteronomy 32:49
2. Place named as a point of proclamation · rare

   In Jeremiah 22:20, the proper noun marks the location from which the APB renders the command to cry out, alongside Lebanon and Bashan.

   Jeremiah 22:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “the Abarim” or “Abarim,” including “the mountains of the Abarim”, but consistently treats it as a place name.