Shaharaim

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 8:8. Father of many heads of houses whom his three wives bore to him. He begat in Moab, after he had sent them namely, Hushim and Baara his wives away; there he begat, with Hodesh his wife, Jobab, etc. He must have been in Moab a long time.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Shahara'im. (double dawn). A Benjamite. 1 Chronicles 8:8. (B.C. about 1546).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A Benjamite who begat children in the land of Moab. 1 Chronicles 8:8 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SHAHARAIM . A Benjamite ( 1 Chronicles 8:8 ).

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 8:8

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Shachara'yim, שִׁחֲרִיַ ם , double dawn, i.e. the morning and evening twilight; Sept. Σααρήμ v.r. Σααρίν and Σααρήλ; Vulg. Saharaim), a person named among the descendants of Benjamin as the father of several children in the land of Moab by two wives (1 Chronicles 8:8). B.C. ante 1612. Considerable confusion appears to have crept into the text where this name occurs (1 Chronicles 8:3-11), which may perhaps be removed by transposition of the middle clause of 1 Chronicles 8:8 and the whole of 1 Chronicles 8:6 after 1 Chronicles 8:7, and rendering as follows: "And there were sons (born) to Bela, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, and Abishua, and Naaman, and Achoach [or Achiah], and Gera [repeated by error], and Shephuphan [spuriously inserted], and Huram [spuriously inserted likewise from the sons of Becher]; and (their father) himself banished Naaman, and Achiah [or Achoach], and Gera; and after his dismissal of them, he begot Uzza and Achichud. And these are the descendants of Echud [i.e. Achiah, otherwise Acharah], chiefs of the progenitors of the inhabitants of Geba (afterwards) exiled to Manachath. Shacharayim begot (children) in the land of Moab of his two wives Hushim and Baara [or Chodesh] — namely, of the latter, Yobah, and Tsibya, and Meysha, and Malkam, and Yeuts, and Shobya [v.r. Shokyah], and Mirmah, chieftains of their lineage; and of the other, Abitub and Elpaal." (See Jacob).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shā - ha - rā´im ( שׁחרים , shaḥărayim  ; Codex Vaticanus Σααρήλ , Saarḗl  ; Codex Alexandrinus Σααρήμ , Saarḗm ): A B enjamite name (1 Chronicles 8:8 ). The passage is corrupt beyond only the most tentative emendation. "Sharaim" has no connection with the foregoing text. One of the suggested restorations of 1 Chronicles 8:8 , 1 Chronicles 8:9 reads: "And Shaharaim begat in the field of Moab, after he had driven them (i.e. the Moabites) out, from Hodesh his wife, Jobab," etc. (Curtis, International Critical Commentary ).