sha.a.ra.yim is a proper place-name listed among cities and named on the route of a pursuit.

The attested form is a proper place-name: it occurs in lists of cities in Joshua 15:36 and 1 Chronicles 4:31, and it marks a location on the route where the Philistines fell in 1 Samuel 17:52.

1. Proper place-name · dominant

   Each occurrence is tagged Noun · Proper. In Joshua 15:36 the APB renders it within a list of cities; in 1 Chronicles 4:31 it appears among cities described as belonging to a group, while in 1 Samuel 17:52 the APB places it on the way along which the slain Philistines fell.

   Joshua 15:361 Chronicles 4:311 Samuel 17:52

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the form as “Shaaraim” in the two city-list contexts and as a destination on “the way to Shaaraim” in 1 Samuel 17:52. These presentations confirm the verse-level setting.