Strong's Hebrew · H2971

יָאִיר

Yâʼîyr · yaw-ere'

Jair.

Definition

Jair, the name of four Israelites

Derivation

from H215 (אוֹר); enlightener;

Appears 8 times in Scripture

Numbers 32:41

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

Deuteronomy 3:14

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

Esther 2:5

Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.

Judges 10:3

Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

Joshua 13:30

The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;

1 Kings 4:13

Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

Judges 10:5

When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

1 Chronicles 2:22

Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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