Bible Names

Jachin: meaning of the name

Jachin means “he that strengthens and makes steadfast.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jachin in Hebrew and Greek

יָכִין H3199

Yâkîyn (yaw-keen') — Jakin, the name of three Israelites and of a temple pillar

from H3559 (כּוּן); he (or it) will establish;

People named Jachin in the Bible

Jachin in Scripture

“Jachin” appears in 8 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 46:10

    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

  • Exodus 6:15

    And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

  • Numbers 26:12

    The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

  • 1 Kings 7:21

    And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:10

    And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

  • 1 Chronicles 24:17

    The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

  • 2 Chronicles 3:17

    And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

  • Nehemiah 11:10

    Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.