Named only once in scripture, as the link between Tzadok and Eliud: 'Tzadok begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud' (Matthew 1:14)
“'Tzadok begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud' (Matthew 1:14) — possibly the same name as one of the two great pillars of Shlomo's Temple, 'Yachin'”
Traditional note: See the general note on the 'silent generation' (Matthew 1:13–15) in 'aviud'. The Greek 'Achim' (Ἀχίμ) is widely thought to be a contracted transliteration of the Hebrew 'Yachin' (יָכִין) — a name attested elsewhere for the head of a priestly division (1 Chronicles 24:17) and for one of the two great bronze pillars of Shlomo's Temple (1 Kings 7:21, 'Yachin' and 'Boaz'). This dataset records 'Yachin' as the likely underlying Hebrew form while flagging the same caution about Greek-to-Hebrew reconstruction given in 'aviud'.
