Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
יָאִיר
- Transliteration
- Yâʼîyr
- Pronunciation
- yaw-ere'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 12
Glosses
Jair.
Lexicon definition
Jair, the name of four Israelites
SUBJECT · Complete Bible Study
Jair
Of the family of Manasseh. He possessed a large canton beyond Jordan; Jair is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “Jairus, my light; who diffuses light.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- H2971
- Hebrew
- יָאִיר · Yâʼîyr
- Name meaning
- Jairus, my light; who diffuses light According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
H2971
Greek lexical coverage
No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry
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Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Jair
Jairus, my light; who diffuses light
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
JAIR
of the family of Manasseh. He possessed a large canton beyond Jordan; the whole country of Argob, as far as the borders of Geshur and Maachathi, Judges x, 3. He succeeded Tola in the judicature or government of the Israelites, and was himself succeeded by Jephthah. His government continued twenty-two years; from A. M. 2795 to 2817. Jair had thirty sons, who rode on asses, and were lords or governors of thirty towns, called Havoth-jair. He was buried at Camon beyond Jordan.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Jair
Indexed occurrences: 10
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All Scripture references11 references
Numbers 1
Deuteronomy 1
Joshua 1
Judges 3
2 Samuel 1
1 Kings 1
1 Chronicles 2
Esther 1
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
JAIR
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for JAIR.
Indexed references: 7
Scripture references:
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Jair
Meaning:
Jairus, my light; who diffuses light
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Topic
HAVOTH-JAIR
Nave’s Topical Bible references for HAVOTH-JAIR.
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JAIR
Nave’s Topical Bible references for JAIR.
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Bashan-havoth-jair
The Bashan of the villages of Jair, the general name given to Argob by Jair, the son of Manasseh (Deut. 3:14), containing sixty cities with walls and brazen gates (Josh. 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13). (See [50]ARGOB.)
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Havoth-jair
the villages that enlighten
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Jaare-oregim
Forests of the weavers, a Bethlehemite (2 Sam. 21:19), and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath. In 1 Chr. 20:5 called JAIR.
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Jair
Jairus, my light; who diffuses light
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Judah upon Jordan
The Authorized Version, following the Vulgate, has this rendering in Josh. 19:34. It has been suggested that, following the Masoretic punctuation, the expression should read thus, "and Judah; the Jordan was toward the sun-rising." The sixty cities (Havoth-jair, Num. 32:41) on the east of Jordan were reckoned as belonging to Judah, because Jair, their founder, was a Manassite only on his mother's side, but on his father's side of the tribe of Judah (1 Chr. 2:5, 21-23).
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