Ja'chin. (he shall establish).
1. One of the two pillars, which were set up, "in the porch," 1 Kings 7:21, or before the Temple, 2 Chronicles 3:17, of Solomon. See Boaz.
2. Fourth son of Simeon, Genesis 46:10; Exodus 6:15, founder of the family of the Jachinites. Numbers 26:12.
3. Head of the twenty-first course of priests, in the time of David. 1 Chronicles 9:10; 1 Chronicles 24:17; Nehemiah 11:10.