Aharah

Aharah is named in the genealogies of the tribe of Benjamin as a son of Benjamin. The same person surfaces under three additional spellings across the lists — Ehi, Ahiram, and Aher — reflecting the variant onomastic forms the lists carry rather than four distinct people.

Son of Benjamin

The Genesis migration list places him among the sons of Benjamin who go down into Egypt with Jacob's household. The form there is "Ehi": "And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel; and the sons of Bela were: Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, and Muppim; and Gera begot Ard" (Gen 46:21).

The wilderness census in Numbers files him under the form "Ahiram," and his line is registered as a clan unit alongside the other Benjamite families: "The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites" (Nu 26:38).

The Chronicler's Benjamite genealogy uses the form "Aharah" and fixes his birth-order position as third son: "And Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third," (1Ch 8:1). The same chapter-cycle in Chronicles also carries a parallel Benjamite list at 1Ch 7:12 ("Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of another"), which a footnote remarks may refer to Dan or stand in for missing information; the verse does not name Aharah/Ehi/Ahiram by any of his forms.

Variant spellings

Across the three verses that name him, the same Benjamite son carries three different forms — Ehi at Gen 46:21, Ahiram at Nu 26:38, and Aharah at 1Ch 8:1 — with Aher attested as a further variant in the topical tradition. The lists themselves give no narrative beyond the genealogical placement: he is registered as one of Benjamin's sons, his clan is enumerated in the wilderness census, and the Chronicler ranks him third in birth-order behind Bela and Ashbel.