{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2971",
  "lemma": "יָאִיר",
  "transliteration": "Yâʼîyr",
  "definition": "Jair, the name of four Israelites",
  "kjv": "Jair.",
  "occurrences": 9,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H215",
      "lemma": "אוֹר",
      "transliteration": "ʼôwr",
      "meaning": "to be",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H215"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "יָאִיר n.pr.m. (he enlightens, or one giving light)",
    "1. son of Manasseh",
    "2. a judge in Gilead",
    "3. father of Mordecai"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 32:41",
      "text": "Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=41"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 3:14",
      "text": "Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 13:30",
      "text": "Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 10:3",
      "text": "After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 10:5",
      "text": "Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 4:13",
      "text": "Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/4?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Esther 2:5",
      "text": "There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/2?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Chronicles 2:22",
      "text": "Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/2?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Chronicles 2:23",
      "text": "Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/2?v=23"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H2971",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}