And Avim, and Parah,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else;and Ophrah is not the same with Ophrah in Jud 6:11; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, 1Sa 13:17.
Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says , in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this. De loc.
Heb. fol. 88.