Word Study · Strong's H2971 · Hebrew

יָאִיר

Yair

yaw-ere'

Strong's 1890 spelling: Yâʼîyr

“Jair, the name of four Israelites”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

Jair, the name of four Israelites

Rendered in the KJV as

Jair.

8
occurrencesin the Old Testament
7 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
8
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 8 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 8

וְיָאִ֤יר1
יָאִ֣יר1
יָאִ֛יר1
יָאִ֖יר1
יָאִ֔יר1
יָאִ֨יר1
יָאִ֑יר1
יָאִ֧יר1

How it is rendered · 2

Jair7
and Jair1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 3

proper noun (a name)6
conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
proper noun (a name)1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNpm · 6
HC/Npm · 1
HNpl · 1

All 8, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Judges2 of 8 · 25%
Numbers1 of 8 · 13%
Deuteronomy1 of 8 · 13%
Joshua1 of 8 · 13%
1 Kings1 of 8 · 13%

Judges carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Numbers1 occurrence

Numbers 32:41וְיָאִ֤ירveyairconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.here: and Jair

Deuteronomy1 occurrence

Deuteronomy 3:14יָאִ֣ירyairproper noun (a name)Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.here: Jair

Joshua1 occurrence

Joshua 13:30יָאִ֛ירyairproper noun (a name)The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;here: Jair

Judges2 occurrences

1 Kings1 occurrence

1 Kings 4:13יָאִ֨ירyairproper noun (a name)Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);here: Jair

1 Chronicles1 occurrence

1 Chronicles 2:22יָאִ֑ירyairproper noun (a name)Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.here: Jair

Esther1 occurrence

Esther 2:5יָאִ֧ירyairproper noun (a name)Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.here: Jair

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