Harim

Harim (meaning flat-nosed, destroyed, or dedicated to God) is the name of several individuals in the Old Testament. The most prominent is the head of the third division of priests appointed by David for temple service (1 Chronicles 24:8). His descendants were among those who returned from the Babylonian exile: Ezra 2:32 and Nehemiah 7:35 list 320 members of the family of Harim among the lay returnees, and Ezra 2:39 lists 1,017 descendants of Harim among the priests who returned. Multiple Harims appear in the post-exilic records: a priest who signed the covenant renewal under Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:5) and a lay leader who also signed (Nehemiah 10:27), as well as several individuals who had married foreign women and agreed to put them away under Ezra's reform (Ezra 10:21, 31).