IACHIN (Heb. jābīn “[He] establishes”). – One of the two columns erected before the entrance to Solomon’s Temple (I Reg. 7:21; II Par. 3:17); the other was called Booz, with evident symbolism in the two names, which together form the phrase “[God] gives stability with strength.”
Name of several Old Testament figures.
1. Son of the patriarch Simeon (Gen. 46:10; Ex. 6:15), ancestor of the Iachinites (Num. 26:12). In I Par. 4:24 he is called Iarib, perhaps owing to a transmission error in the text.
2. Priest (I Par. 9:16), to whom David entrusted the twenty-first priestly course of service (I Par. 24:17).
3. Priest, most probably a descendant of the preceding, in the time of Nehemiah (Neh. 11:10).