HARIM hâ’ rĭm (חָרִ֔ם, consecrated). A family name. 1. A lay family that returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel, and after marrying foreign wives put them away and renewed the covenant with Nehemiah (Ezra 2:32; Neh 7:35).

2. A priestly family that returned from the Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel, some members of which also married foreign wives and then put them away and renewed the covenant with Nehemiah (Ezra 10:21; Neh 10:5). First Chronicles mentions a family with this name who were members of the third course of priests.

3. Nehemiah 3:11 tells of Malchijah the son of Harim who with Hasshub, the son of Pathath-moab, repaired a section of the wall of Jerusalem; but it is not clear to which of the above two families named Harim he belonged.