H2985: יָבִין
Yâbîyn · pronounced yaw-bene' · “Jabin”
Definition
Jabin, the name of two Canaanitish kings
KJV translates it as: Jabin.
Word origin: from H995 (בִּין); intelligent;
Extended definition
§ 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
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2985 is translated
- jabin ×8
Bible verses with H2985 (Yâbîyn)
Yâbîyn appears in 7 verses.
- Joshua 11:1
And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
- Judges 4:2
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
- Judges 4:7
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
- Judges 4:17
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 4:23
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
- Judges 4:24
And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
- Psalms 83:9
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: