(adversary ).

1. Named in the list of ( 1 Chronicles 4:24 ) only, as a son of Simeon. Perhaps the same as JACHIN. Genesis46; Exod 6; Numb 26.
2. One of the "chief men" who accompanied Ezra on his journey from Babylon to Jerusalem. ( Ezra 8:16 ) (B.C. 469.)
3. A priest of the house of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, who had married a foreign wife, and was compelled by Ezra to put her away. ( Ezra 10:18 ) (B.C. 459.)
4. 1 Macc. 14:29. A contraction or corruption of the name JOARIB. ch. 2:1.