slender; sharp
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HARUPHITE.See Hariph.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ha-roo?fı̄t (חרוּפי, ḥărūphı̄, or חריפי, ḥărı̄phı̄); In 1Ch_12:5 Shephatiah, one of the companions of David, is called a Haruphite (K) or Hariphite (Q). If the latter be the correct reading, it is connected with HARIPH or perhaps HAREPH (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Haruphite
(Heb. Charuphi', חֲרוּפַי,with the art.; for which the Masoretic margin more correctly reads חֲרַיפַּי, Hariphite; Sept. Α᾿ρουφί v.r. Χαριφιήλ, Vulg. Haruphites), an epithet of Shephatiah, one of the brave adventurers who joined David at Ziklag (1Ch_12:5); so called, probably, as being a native of HARIPH. Josabad the Gederathite, of the preceding verse, was probably from the same place; and as he was so called from being a resident of Gedor (q.v.), it would seen that the epithet Haruphite was an equivalent one, as a descendant from Hareph (q.v.), the founder of Geder (1Ch_2:51).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.