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# יָמִין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3226

**Jamin. See also** — used 6 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

Jamin. See also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3226/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָמִין²: n.pr.m. Levite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3226/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Simeon Gn 46:10; Ex 6:15; Nu 26:12; 1 Ch 4:24. man of Judah 1 Ch 2:27. Levite (?) name, time of Ezra Ne 8:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.24/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י שִׁמְע֑וֹן נְמוּאֵ֣ל וְיָמִ֔ין יָרִ֖יב זֶ֥רַח שָׁאֽוּל׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Simeon \[were\].Nemuel and Jamin Jarib Zerah Shaul

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamim, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

[1 Chronicles 2:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.27/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בְנֵי־רָ֖ם בְּכ֣וֹר יְרַחְמְאֵ֑ל מַ֥עַץ וְיָמִ֖ין וָעֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.sons of.Ram the.firstborn of.Jerahmeel Maaz and Jamin and Eker

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3226.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3226/): 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).