("two caverns".) Gave their name to a town of Moab (Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:3; Jeremiah 48:5; Jeremiah 48:34). On an eminence from which there was a "descent." Ptolemy's "Avara" is identified with Horonaim Sanballet, the opponent of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem wall (Nehemiah 4:7; Nehemiah 2:10), was an Horonite.