BAHRUM. - Locality (Hebrew Bahurim "youths"):
a district of young men; according to J. Fürst and J. P. van Kasteren: "deep place" of the tribe of Benjamin, near Jerusalem, on the road between it and Jericho. There Michal, going from Gallim to Hebron, parted from Phaltiel (2 Sam 3:16; LXX Βαραχμ), Shimei cursed the fleeing King David, throwing stones at him from the heights (ibid. 16:5; LXX Βαραχμ), the stone-thrower was in a cistern; Jonathan and Ahimaaz (ibid. 17:18; LXX Βαραχμ). David’s trumpeter, Azmaveth or Azmoth (hab-bar-hunit, Vulgate de Beromi, ibid. 23:31, better hab-bahdārūm in 1 Chr 11:33, Vulg. bauramites), was from B. It was south of Gallim (home of Phaltiel: 2 Sam 25:44), east of the Mount of Olives.
The Targum of Jonathan mistakenly identifies it with 'Almīt, which instead corresponds to the Levitical city of Almon or Almath (Josh 21:18; 1 Chr 6:60, Heb. 6:45) near Anathoth. B. is the present-day Rās et-Tmim, a site near the ancient road to Geico, where proto-Israelite, Second Temple, and Roman pottery has been found. Ascending from Jericho, the Anonymous of Piacenza writes (c. 570): «Non longe ab Hierusolima venimus in Baorín, deinde ad sinistram ad oppida Oliveti montis in Bethania» (ed. P. Geyer, Itinera Hierosolymitana saec. IV-VIII [CSEL, 39], Vienna 1898, p. 170).
The manuscripts of the Lucianic recension of the LXX have Χορράμ (2 Sam 16:5), as does Flavius Josephus (Χωρανν: Ant. Jud., VII, 9, 4), and Βαλχορρων (Flavius Josephus, ibid., 7: Βαχορρης).