Hebrew word · H3137

יוֹקִים

veyokim

Jokim

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.22;

son of: Shelah (H7956);

brother of: Er (H6147H), Laadah (H3935), Joash (H3101K) and Saraph (H8315)

§ Jokim = "Jehovah raises up"

a descendant of Judah

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:22 וְיוֹקִ֞ים and Jokim

    Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)

    Here: A personal name, probably a short form of Jehoiakim, 'YHWH raises up'. He is listed as another descendant of Shelah, son of Judah, continuing the list begun in v. 21. He is known only from this verse.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.