The Hararite
The Hararite [1]
(Heb. always [except in 2 Samuel 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"( 2 Samuel 23:11 [Sept. Οα῾᾿ Ραρί v.r. Ἀρουχῖος ,Vulg. De Arari, A.V. "the Hararite"], 33 [ Οα῾᾿Ρωρίτης v.r. Ἀρωδίτης , 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. ( 1 Chronicles 11:27), or "Shammah the Harodite"[q.v.] ( 2 Samuel 23:25). (See Agee).
2. "JONATHAN [q.v.], the son of Shage"( 1 Chronicles 11:34, Sept. Οα῾᾿Ραοί ,Vulg. Ararites), mentioned in the parallel passage ( 2 Samuel 23:32) without any such distinction. (See Shage).
3. "AHIAM [q.v.], the son of Sacar"( 1 Chronicles 11:35, Sept. Οα῾᾿Ραρί v.r. Ἀχάρ ,Vulg. Ararites), or, in the parallel passage ( 2 Samuel 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. Ἀραϊ v, etc., Vulg. Arorites, A.V. "the Hararite"). (See Sacar).
