diff --git a/docs/jax.numpy.rst b/docs/jax.numpy.rst
index 4520129f0..48db32b3b 100644
--- a/docs/jax.numpy.rst
+++ b/docs/jax.numpy.rst
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Not every function in NumPy is implemented; contributions are welcome!
     around
     array
     array_equal
+    array_equiv
     array_repr
     array_split
     array_str
diff --git a/jax/numpy/__init__.py b/jax/numpy/__init__.py
index 197d9eb50..566d13e36 100644
--- a/jax/numpy/__init__.py
+++ b/jax/numpy/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from .lax_numpy import (
     alltrue, amax, amin, angle, any, append,
     apply_along_axis, apply_over_axes, arange, arccos, arccosh, arcsin,
     arcsinh, arctan, arctan2, arctanh, argmax, argmin, argsort, argwhere, around,
-    array, array_equal, array_repr, array_split, array_str, asarray, atleast_1d, atleast_2d,
+    array, array_equal, array_equiv, array_repr, array_split, array_str, asarray, atleast_1d, atleast_2d,
     atleast_3d, average, bartlett, bfloat16, bincount, bitwise_and, bitwise_not,
     bitwise_or, bitwise_xor, blackman, block, bool_, broadcast_arrays,
     broadcast_to, can_cast, cbrt, cdouble, ceil, character, clip, column_stack,
diff --git a/jax/numpy/lax_numpy.py b/jax/numpy/lax_numpy.py
index 8cca5e300..9d416a565 100644
--- a/jax/numpy/lax_numpy.py
+++ b/jax/numpy/lax_numpy.py
@@ -2418,6 +2418,20 @@ def array_equal(a1, a2, equal_nan=False):
   return all(eq)
 
 
+@_wraps(np.array_equiv)
+def array_equiv(a1, a2):
+  try:
+    a1, a2 = asarray(a1), asarray(a2)
+  except Exception:
+    return False
+  try:
+    eq = equal(a1, a2)
+  except ValueError:
+    # shapes are not broadcastable
+    return False
+  return all(eq)
+
+
 # We can't create uninitialized arrays in XLA; use zeros for empty.
 empty_like = zeros_like
 empty = zeros
diff --git a/tests/lax_numpy_test.py b/tests/lax_numpy_test.py
index 4e012b9fc..09470cc45 100644
--- a/tests/lax_numpy_test.py
+++ b/tests/lax_numpy_test.py
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ JAX_ONE_TO_ONE_OP_RECORDS = [
               all_shapes, jtu.rand_default, ["rev"], inexact=True, tolerance=0),
     op_record("not_equal", 2, all_dtypes, all_shapes, jtu.rand_some_equal, ["rev"]),
     op_record("array_equal", 2, number_dtypes, all_shapes, jtu.rand_some_equal, ["rev"]),
+    op_record("array_equiv", 2, number_dtypes, all_shapes, jtu.rand_some_equal, ["rev"]),
     op_record("reciprocal", 1, inexact_dtypes, all_shapes, jtu.rand_default, []),
     op_record("subtract", 2, number_dtypes, all_shapes, jtu.rand_default, ["rev"]),
     op_record("signbit", 1, default_dtypes + bool_dtypes, all_shapes,
@@ -593,6 +594,31 @@ class LaxBackedNumpyTests(jtu.JaxTestCase):
       with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
         op(arg, other)
 
+  def testArrayEqualExamples(self):
+    # examples from the array_equal() docstring.
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equal([1, 2], [1, 2]))
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equal(np.array([1, 2]), np.array([1, 2])))
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equal([1, 2], [1, 2, 3]))
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equal([1, 2], [1, 4]))
+
+    a = np.array([1, np.nan])
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equal(a, a))
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equal(a, a, equal_nan=True))
+
+    a = np.array([1 + 1j])
+    b = a.copy()
+    a.real = np.nan
+    b.imag = np.nan
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equal(a, b, equal_nan=True))
+
+  def testArrayEquivExamples(self):
+    # examples from the array_equiv() docstring.
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equiv([1, 2], [1, 2]))
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equiv([1, 2], [1, 3]))
+    self.assertTrue(jnp.array_equiv([1, 2], [[1, 2], [1, 2]]))
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equiv([1, 2], [[1, 2, 1, 2], [1, 2, 1, 2]]))
+    self.assertFalse(jnp.array_equiv([1, 2], [[1, 2], [1, 3]]))
+
   def testArrayModule(self):
     if numpy_dispatch is None:
       raise SkipTest('requires https://github.com/seberg/numpy-dispatch')