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יָאִיר

Yâʼîyr · H2971 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Jair

    A man who was a son of Segub and a descendant of Manasseh, leader of the conquest of a large area in Gilead during the settlement of Israel

    Examples

    Numbers 32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.

    Deuteronomy 3:14 “Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, that is, Bashan, and named it after his own name: Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)

    1 Chronicles 2:22 Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

  2. Jair

    A man from Gilead who was a judge of Israel

    Examples

    Judges 10:3 After him, Jair the Gileadite rose up and judged Israel for twenty-two years.

    Judges 10:5 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

  3. Villages of Jair, Jair's Camps, Jair's Settlements

    Settlements in Gilead, in certain passages associated with a person of the same name

    Examples

    Numbers 32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.

    Deuteronomy 3:14 “Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, that is, Bashan, and named it after his own name: Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)

    Joshua 13:30 Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

  4. Jair

    A man of the tribe of Benjamin who was the father of Mordecai

    Examples

    Esther 2:5 There was a Jew at the citadel in Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of People003001007
יָאִיר is the proper name Jair, a descendant of Manasseh who captured towns in Gilead and named them Havvoth-jair after himself (Numbers 32:41, Deuteronomy 3:14).
Names of Locations003001010
The name is also embedded in the place name Havvoth-jair, 'the villages of Jair,' the region he took and renamed (Joshua 13:30).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2971. Yair יָאִיר proper name, masculine (he enlightens, or one giving light). 1 son of…
H2971. Yair
יָאִיר proper name, masculine (he enlightens, or one giving light).
1 son of Manasseh Num 32:41 (twice in verse); Deu 3:14 (twice in verse); Jos 13:30; 1Ki 4:13; 1Ch 2:22-23,.
2 a judge in Gilead Jdg 10:3-4, Jdg 10:5.
3 father of Mordecai Est 2:5.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Names of People6 occurrencesNames of Locations6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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