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Achim
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Achim
Identity
- Name meaning
- possibly a shortened form of *Jakim* / *Yehoiakim* (*the LORD raises up*) (Heb. yakim)
Family
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Era & origin
- Era
- Post-exilic — Matthew's compressed genealogy places him between Sadoc and Eliud
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Role
- Role
- Ancestor of Joseph in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus
- Notable for
- Achim appears once in scripture — Matthew 1:14, in the second segment of Matthew's three-part genealogy of Jesus: *Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud.* Nothing further is recorded of him; he is one of the post-exilic Davidic descendants Matthew names from sources unknown to us, filling the long gap between the return from Babylon and the birth of Christ.
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Achim appears once in scripture — Matthew 1:14, in the second segment of Matthew's three-part genealogy of Jesus: *Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud.* Nothing further is recorded of him; he is one of the post-exilic Davidic descendants Matthew names from sources unknown to us, filling the long gap between the return from Babylon and the birth of Christ.
The name is likely a shortened form of *Jakim (יָקִים) or Yehoiakim (יְהוֹיָקִים) — the LORD raises up* — making him another in the chain of Davidic descendants whose names confess the God of the covenant.
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Source · AI-drafted from biblical text and standard reference works (Smith's, Easton's, ISBE) — verify before publication.
