JAKIM

(Jaʹkim) [he (God) lifts up].

1. A descendant of Benjamin through Shimei, included in a list of heads of fathers’ houses residing in Jerusalem.—1 Chron. 8:1, 19-21, 28.

2. The priest whose paternal house was selected by lot for the twelfth of the twenty-four divisions of priestly temple service under David’s reign.—1 Chron. 24:3, 5, 12.