Harim in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(flat-nosed). 1. A priest who had charge of the third division in the house of God. 1Ch 24:8 (B.C. 1014.) 2. Bene-Harim, probably descendants of the above, to the number of 1017, came from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Ezr 2:39; Ne 7:42 (B.C. 536.) 3. It further occurs in a list of the families of priests "who went up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua," and of those who were their descendants in the next generation. Ne 12:16 4. Another family of Bene-Harim, 320 in number, came from the captivity in the same caravan. Ezr 2:82; Ne 7:35 (B.C. 536.) They also appear among those who had married foreign wives, Ezr 10:31 as well as those who sealed the covenant- Ne 10:27 (B.C. 410.)