Sepharvaim (Hebrew: סְפַרְוָיִם, romanized: Səp̄arvāyīm) was a city mentioned in the Bible as being captured by the Assyrians.
It was a double city, and received the common name Sepharvaim, i.e., "the two Sipparas", or "the two booktowns".
The recent discovery of cuneiform inscriptions at Amarna in Egypt, consisting of official despatches to Pharaoh Amenophis IV.
and his predecessor from their agents in Canaan, leads some Egyptologists to conclude that an active literary intercourse was carried on between these nations, and that the medium of the correspondence was the Akkadian language language and script.
After the deportation of the Israelites to Assyria, at least some of the residents of this city were brought to Samaria to repopulate it with other Gentile settlers.