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(Heb. Chiupham', çåּôָí , according to Gesenius perh. coast-man, according to Furst screened; Sept. omits, but some eds. have Ï᾿öáì ; Vulg. Hupham), a person apparently mentioned as one of the sons of Benjamin (Num_26:39); elsewhere less correctly called HUPPIM (Gen_46:24). His descendants are called HUPHIMITES (Hebrew Chuphanzi', çåּôָîַé , Sept. omits, but some eds. Ï᾿öáìß ,Vulg. Huphamitce, Num_26:39). B.C. 1856. The name Huppim being in the plural (Heb. Chuppim', çֻôַּéí , coverings; Sept. omits in Gen_46:21, but some copies have ᾿Èöìßí or Ï᾿öéìßì ; as a son of Bela; Vulg. Ophim.), suggests the possibility that it is a contraction for Huphamites. SEE SHUPPIM.
The only other passages where it occurs are 1Ch_7:12 (Sept. Á᾿öåßì , Vulg. Hapham) and 15 (Sept. Á᾿ööåßì , Vulg. Happhim), in both which it has the same fraternity with Shuppim, and in the latter mention is made of a sister Maachah as married to Machir, the son of Manasseh by a concubine, while in the former Huppim and Shuppim are expressly called the sons of Ir, apparently a son of Benjamin additional to the three mentioned in 1Ch_7:6, but probably not the Iri mentioned in 1Ch_7:7. Hence results the probability that Hupham, whose descendants are thus spoken of, was a grandson of Benjamin, and consequently a son of one of his five sons expressly named in order in 1Ch_8:1-2, but whether of the fourth or fifth is uncertain. SEE BENJAMIN.