Yavin יָבִין

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Yavin
יָבִין
Transliterationyavin
Strong's numberH2985 (H2985H, H2985G)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossJabin
Occurrences8 in 7 verses
Most frequent inJudges (5)

Yavin (Hebrew יָבִין, Strong's H2985) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Jabin”. It occurs 8 times.

Definition

H2985H: Jabin

A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.2
§ Jabin = "whom God observes"
1) a king of Hazor who organised a confederacy of the northern princes against Joshua; confederacy routed by the waters of Merom
2) another king of Hazor whose general, Sisera, was defeated by Barak

H2985G: Jabin

A man living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at Jos.11.1
§ Jabin = "whom God observes"
1) a king of Hazor who organised a confederacy of the northern princes against Joshua; confederacy routed by the waters of Merom
2) another king of Hazor whose general, Sisera, was defeated by Barak

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVjabin (7), jabin's (1)
BSBjabin (6), jabin's (1), him (1)

Verses

Every verse with Yavin, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Joshua

Judges

Psalms

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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