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(Hebrew Chaphara'yim, çֲôָøִéַí , two pits; Sept. Á᾿öåñáú v ì , Vulg. Hapharaim), a place near the border of Issachar, mentioned between Shunem and Shihon (Jos_19:19). Eusebius (Ononast. s.v. Áἰöáñááßì ,) appears to place it six Roman miles north of Leggio; the Apocrypha also possibly speaks of the same place as APHAEREMA ( Á᾿öáßñåìá , 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.