A city of Issachar (Jos_19:19), or "the two pits." Probably now el-Afuleh.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Haphra'im. (two pits). A city of Issachar, mentioned next to Shunem. Jos_19:19. About 6 miles northeast of Lejjun, and two miles west of Solam, (the ancient Shunem), stands the village of el' Afuleh, which may possibly be the representative of Haphraim.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Haphraim
(Hebrew Chaphara'yim, חֲפָרִיַם, two pits; Sept. Α᾿φεραϊvμ, Vulg. Hapharaim), a place near the border of Issachar, mentioned between Shunem and Shihon (Jos_19:19). Eusebius (Ononast. s.v.Αἰφαρααίμ,) appears to place it six Roman miles north of Leggio; the Apocrypha also possibly speaks of the same place as APHAEREMA (Α᾿φαίρεμα, 1Ma_11:34; com-pare 10:30, 38). Schwarz (Palestine, p. 166) was unable to find it. Kiepert ( Wandkarte von Palastina, 1857) locates it near the river Kishon, apparently at Tell eth Thorah (Robinson's Researches, new ed. 3:115). Dr. Thomson (Land and Book, 1, 502) imagines it may be the modern Shefa Amer (the Shefa Omar of Robinson, Researches, new ed. 3 103, on a ridge overlooking the plain of Megiddo), which, he says, in old Arabic authors is written Shephram. SEE ISSACHAR.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.