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HARIM.—1. A lay family which appears in the list of the returning exiles (Ezr_2:32 = Neh_7:35); of those who had married foreign wives (Ezr_10:31); and of those who signed the covenant (Neh_10:27). 2. A priestly family in the same lists (Ezr_2:39 = Neh_7:42 = 1Es_5:25 Harim; Ezr_10:21, Neh_10:5). The name is found also among ‘the priests and Levites that went up with Zerubbabel’ (Neh_12:3, where it is miswritten Rehum); among the heads of priestly families in the days of Joiakim (Neh_12:15); and as the third of the 24 courses (1Ch_24:8). To which family Malchijah the son of Harim, one of the builders of the wall (Neh_3:11), belonged cannot be determined.