H2971 יָאִיר

יָאִיר (Yâʼîyr), Strong’s H2971: Jair, the name of four Israelites KJV: Jair.. Occurs 9 times.

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Yâʼîyr — Jair, the name of four Israelites

KJV: Jair.

Derived from אוֹר ʼôwr (https://besorah.bible/word/H215) (to be)

Occurs 9 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָאִיר n.pr.m. (he enlightens, or one giving light)
- 1 son of Manasseh
- 2 a judge in Gilead
- 3 father of Mordecai

Where it occurs
- Numbers 32:41 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=41) — Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/3?v=14) — Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called…
- Joshua 13:30 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=30) — Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which…
- Judges 10:3 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=3) — After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
- Judges 10:5 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/10?v=5) — Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
- 1 Kings 4:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/4?v=13) — Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the…
- Esther 2:5 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/2?v=5) — 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…
- 1 Chronicles 2:22 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/2?v=22) — Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-chronicles/2?v=23) — Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the…