His father, Yehoshua Yeivin, was a conceptual philosopher of the Revisionist Zionism movement and founder of the radical Zionist group Brit HaBirionim.

He retired in 1990 but continued to research the Masorah; Bible accentuation (Ta'amei HaMikra), the traditional language revealed in the Babylonian Vocalization, Rabbinical Hebrew, Leshon Hachamim), liturgical poetry (Piyyut), and lexicology.

In 1975, Yeivin spent several months at Cambridge, England, helping to unravel and classify documents from the Cairo Genizah.

[1] In 1986, Yeivin was awarded the Friedenberg Prize for his book "The Hebrew Language Tradition as Reflected in the Babylonian Vocalization".

Further in memory of his son Dov, a large part of his rare scholarly collection has been donated to the Ariel University Center of Samaria Library.