Shaaraim is an Israelite city mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

The city appears in the city list of Judah's tribal inheritance, after Socoh and Azekah

Azekah

Azekah was a town in the Shephelah guarding the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah, about 26 km northwest of Hebron. It has been identified with biblical Azeka.-Biblical history:...

 (Jos 15, 36). After David killed Goliath, the Philistines

Philistines

Philistines , Pleshet or Peleset, were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan at the beginning of the Iron Age . According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states of Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from the Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with...

 ran away and were slain on the “road to Sha'arayim" (1 Sam 17:52). In the city list of the tribe of Simeon, Sha'arayim is mentioned as one of the cities "unto the reign of David" (1 Chr 4:31). The name means "two gates" in Hebrew.

Possible archaeological identification

Some archaeologists believe that the dig at Khirbet Qeiyafa

Khirbet Qeiyafa

Khirbet Qeiyafa is the site of an ancient city overlooking the Elah Valley. The ruins of the fortress were uncovered in 2007, near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, 20 miles from Jerusalem. It covers nearly six acres and is encircled by a 700-meter long city wall constructed of stones weighing...

is Shaaraim as the excavations have uncovered a wall that makes a nearly complete circuit with two gates, and because this is "the only contender for Sha'arim with two gates, all the other sites of the period have only a single city gate."