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yāvīn יָבִין ‘Jabin’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from bīn בִּין ‘to understand’
Roots: בין

yāvīn pr n m pers
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

Mentioned in Joshua 11:1 Judges 4:17, 4:7, 4:23, 4:2, 4:24 Psalms 83:10

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