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AndוּSegubשְׂגוּבfatheredהוֹלִיד אֶתJair,יָאִירand he hadוַיְהִי לוֹtwenty-threeעֶשְׂרִים וְשָׁלוֹשׁcitiesעָרִיםin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Gilead.הַגִּלְעָד
1 Chronicles 2:22
Study it in the app“And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Chronicles 2:22, word by word
- Segubשְׂגוּבseguv
Segub
Segub: a name meaning "exalted." He is the youngest son of Hiel, who built Jericho (1 Kings 16:34); also a descendant of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:21-22).
Where else “seguv” appears- fatheredהוֹלִידholid
father
For a man to have a child.
Where else “holid” appears- Jairיָאִירyair
Jair
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh who took some villages in Gilead; other men bear the same name. The name means "he gives light."
Where else “yair” appears- and he hadיְהִיyehi
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appears- twenty-threeעֶשְׂרִיםesrim
twenty
Twenty; also "twentieth".
Where else “esrim” appears- twenty-threeשָׁלוֹשׁshalosh
three
A quantity of three: three persons or things together.
Where else “shalosh” appears- citiesעָרִיםarim
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “arim” appears- in the landאֶרֶץerets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appears- of Gileadגִּלְעָדgilad
Gilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appears
Places in this verse
Gilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
The context
21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead; and he took her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.
22 · This verse (above)
23But Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-jair from them, Kenath and its towns, sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.