Ha'rarite, The. (the mountaineer). The destination of three of David's guard.
1. Agee, a Hararite, 2Sa_23:11.
2. Shammah, the Hararite. 2Sa_23:33.
3. Sharar, 2Sa_23:33, or Sacar, 1Ch_11:35, the Hararite, was the father of Ahiam, another member of the guard.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Hararite, the
(Heb. always [except in 2Sa_23:11] with the art. ha-Harari, הִהֲרָרַי), a distinctive epithet of three members of David's body-guard; probably as natives of the mountains (הִר, plur. constr. חֲרָרֵי) of Judah or Ephraim; but according to Furst from some town of the name of Har (הִר). SEE DAVID.
1. SHAMMAH [q.v.], the son of Agee(2Sa_23:11 [Sept. οΑ῾᾿ ραρί v.r. Α᾿ρουχῖος,Vulg. de Arari, A.V. the Hararite], 33 [οΑ῾᾿ρωρίτης v.r. Α᾿ρωδίτης, Arorites], which latter verse shows that it was a designation of the son and not of the father), a different person from Shammoth the Harorite[q.v. (1Ch_11:27), or Shammah the Harodite[q.v.] (2Sa_23:25). SEE AGEE.
2. JONATHAN [q.v.], the son of Shage(1Ch_11:34, Sept. οΑ῾᾿ραοί,Vulg. Ararites), mentioned in the parallel passage (2Sa_23:32) without any such distinction. SEE SHAGE.
3. AHIAM [q.v.], the son of Sacar(1Ch_11:35, Sept. οΑ῾᾿ραρί v.r. Α᾿χάρ,Vulg. Ararites), or, in the parallel passage (2Sa_23:33),less accurately, Ahiam, [the] son of Sharar [q.v.] the Ararite'(Heb. with the art. ha-Arari', הָאֲרָרַי, Sept. οΑ῾᾿ραδίτης lT. r. Α᾿ραϊv, etc., Vulg. Arorites, A.V. the Hararite). SEE SACAR.
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