(Heb. Ylarib', יָרַיב, an adversary, as in Psalms 35:1, etc.; Sept. Ι᾿αρείβ, Ι᾿αρίβ ), the name of three or four men. (See JAREB).
1. A son of Simeon (1 Chronicles 4:24); elsewhere (Genesis 46:10, etc.) called JACHIN (See JACHIN) (q.v.).
2. One of the popular chiefs dispatched by Ezra to,.procure the company of priests in the return to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:16). B.C. 459.
3. One of the priests of the kindred' of Jeshua that divorced their Gentile wives after the Exile (Ezra 10:18). B.C. 459.
4. A Graecized or corrupt form (1 Maccabees 14:29; compare 2 Maccabees 2:1) of JOARIB (See JOARIB) (q.v.).