Hebrew word · H3402

יָרִיב

yariv

Jarib

A personal name, probably 'he contends / pleads (a case)', from riv, 'to strive, bring a lawsuit'. The same name appears for other men in Ezra 8:16 and 10:18.

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.8.16

§ Jarib = "he contends"

1) a son of Simeon

2) one of the chief men of Israel who returned from exile with Ezra

3) son of Jozadak and a priest of the house of Jeshua who married a foreign wife and was compelled by Ezra to put her away

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

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 4:24

Range of meaning

A personal name, probably 'he contends / pleads (a case)', from riv, 'to strive, bring a lawsuit'. The same name appears for other men in Ezra 8:16 and 10:18.

Against the English

Every English translation follows the Hebrew: 'Jarib'. None of them shows the reader that the parallel lists have Jachin at this point.

Used elsewhere in the period

Genesis 46:10, Exodus 6:15 and Numbers 26:12 all read Jachin (יָכִין), and Numbers 26:12 adds a clan of 'Jachinites'.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:24 יָרִ֖יב Jarib

    The descendants of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul.

    Here: The third clan head. Genesis 46:10, Exodus 6:15 and Numbers 26:12 have Jachin (יָכִין) here. The name probably means 'he contends' or 'he pleads a case' (from riv). Most likely it is the same clan under a variant or miscopied name.

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 8:16 וּלְיָרִ֜יב and for Jarib

    Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.

    Here: Probably a short form meaning '(God) contends' or 'pleads the case,' using the language of a legal advocate. It looks like a shortened form of Joiarib, who appears later in this same verse.

  2. Ezra 10:18 וְיָרִ֖יב and Jarib

    Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

    Here: Probably 'he [God] contends' or 'pleads the cause'. A third member of the high-priestly family.

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