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# יָבִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2985

**Jabin** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jabin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2985/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָבִין: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2985/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (one who is intelligent, discerning) two Canaanite kings of Hazor;— Jos 11:1. Ju 4:2, 7, 17, 23, 24(×2) ψ 83:10. (But cf. Be Ju 4:2 BuRS 66 ff.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jabin (6); of Jabin (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 83:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.10/#tree)

עֲשֵֽׂה־לָהֶ֥ם כְּמִדְיָ֑ן כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥א כְ֝יָבִ֗ין בְּנַ֣חַל קִישֽׁוֹן׃

*Word for word:* do to them like Midian like Sisera like Jabin at the.wadi of.Kishon

*JPS 1917:* Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;

[Judges 4:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.23/#tree)

וַיַּכְנַ֤ע אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא אֵ֖ת יָבִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ־כְּנָ֑עַן לִפְנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.subdued God on the day (the) that (et) Jabin the.king of.Canaan before the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2985.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2985/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).