JABIN

'Jabin' (ja'-bin) may refer to
# A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Joshua 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy against Joshua was the crowning act in the conquest of the land (11:21-23; comp 14:6-15). This great battle, fought at Lake Merom, was the last of Joshua's battles of which we have any record. Here for the first time the Israelites encountered the iron chariots and horses of the Canaanites.
# Another king of Hazor, called "the king of Canaan," who overpowered the Israelites of the north one hundred and sixty years after Joshua's death, and for twenty years held them in painful subjection. The whole population were paralyzed with fear, and gave way to hopeless despondency (Judges 5:6-11), till Deborah and Barak aroused the national spirit, and gathering together ten thousand men, gained a great and decisive victory over Jabin in the plain of Esdraelon (Judges 4:10-16; Compare Psalms 83:9). This was the first great victory Israel had gained since the days of Joshua. They never needed to fight another battle with the Canaanites (Judges 5:31).

★ ''Meaning'': discerner; the wise

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3. A relatively little known chief in the Del Norte tribe of Native Americans from the region that is now Northern California, Jabin Kahl oversaw a tribal conglomeration from 1784 till his untimely death in 1815. He is best known for introducing the art of genital piercing into the Del Norte cultural lexicon. Chief Jabin died in a tragic accident in the fall of 1815, when in the process of self-administering a routine testicular piercing, he inadvertently ruptured the main urethral artery and succumbed to extensive blood loss. Chief Jabin's forward thinking innovation in the field of genital piercing was decades, if not centuries ahead of his time and his contributions are said to have inspired modern forms of the art, such as the exquisite prince albert ring and the unparalleled uvula bi-section.