Lexicon / H2985
יָבִין
ya.vin
  • Jabin
  • one who is intelligent
  • discerning

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: 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

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

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: one who is intelligent; discerning

יָבִין n.pr.m one who is intelligent discerning . (,) two Canaanite kings of Hazor