AROM (1Es_5:16).His descendants are mentioned among those who returned with Zerubbabel. The name has no parallel in the lists of Ezr. and Neh., unless it represents Hashum in Ezr_2:19.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ā?rom (Ἀρόμ, Arō̇m): The sons of Arom returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:16). Omitted in Ezra and Nehemiah. Hashum is found in place of Arom in Ezr_2:19.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Arom
(Α᾿ρόμ, prob. interpolated), the name of a man whose descendants (or of a place whose inhabitants), to the number of thirty-two, are said to have returned from the Babylonian captivity (1Es_5:16); but the genuine text (Ezr_2:17-18) has no corresponding name, unless it be a mistake for Asons, and represents the HASHUM of Ezra 11:19.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.