יָאִיר

ya.irJair
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man8 occurrences7 books8 verses
This name belongs to 4 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Jair: Mordecai's father, a Benjamite
  • Jair: Gileadite judge who led Israel
  • Jair: Manassite leader who captured Gilead
  • Jair: An Israelite who possessed towns in Gilead

Definition

from H215; enlightener; Jair, the name of four Israelites
Traditional renderings: Jair.

Glossary entries

Jair Jairite

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

8 total
  1. Numbers 32:41וְיָאִ֤יר · Jair
    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
  2. Deuteronomy 3:14יָאִ֣יר · Jair
    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.
  3. Joshua 13:30יָאִ֛יר · of Jair
    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;
  4. Judges 10:3יָאִ֖יר · Jair
    Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
  5. Judges 10:5יָאִ֔יר · When Jair
    When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
  6. 1 Kings 4:13יָאִ֨יר · of Jair
    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);
  7. 1 Chronicles 2:22יָאִ֑יר · Jair
    Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
  8. Esther 2:5יָאִ֧יר · of Jair
    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.