יָאִיר
yair · Jair
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2971 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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yair (יָאִיר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Jair”.
A descendant of Manasseh who took some villages in Gilead; other men bear the same name. The name means "he gives light."
How to say it
ya·ir
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
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Where it appears
- Numbers 32:41
Jair son of Manasseh went and took their villages, and he called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them by his name, Bashan Havvoth-jair, to this day.)
- Joshua 13:30
And their territory was from Mahanaim: all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
- Judges 10:3
After him arose Jair the Gileadite, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
- Judges 10:5
Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
- 1 Kings 4:13
Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; his were Havvoth-jair of Jair son of Manasseh, which is in Gilead; his was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bars of bronze;
- 1 Chronicles 2:22
And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23
But 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.
- Esther 2:5
There was a Jewish man in Susa, the fortress, and his name was Mordecai, son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,