This name belongs to 4 different people and places in the Bible:
Definition
from H215; enlightener; Jair, the name of four Israelites
Traditional renderings: Jair.
Traditional renderings: Jair.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
8 total
- Numbers 32:41וְיָאִ֤יר · JairJair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14יָאִ֣יר · JairJair, 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.
- Joshua 13:30יָאִ֛יר · of JairThe 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;
- Judges 10:3יָאִ֖יר · JairTola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
- Judges 10:5יָאִ֔יר · When JairWhen Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
- 1 Kings 4:13יָאִ֨יר · of JairBen-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);
- 1 Chronicles 2:22יָאִ֑יר · JairSegub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- Esther 2:5יָאִ֧יר · of JairNow 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.