Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H2971
יָאִיר
Yairyaw-ere'
Jair
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yâʼîyr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2971is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2971
Jair, the name of four Israelites
The King James renders it: Jair.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yair is rendered "Jair". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Two of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 32:41Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
Numbers 32:41וְיָאִ֤יר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Jair7
- and Jair1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָאִרִי | Yairi | Jairite | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְיָאִ֤יר1
- יָאִ֣יר1
- יָאִ֛יר1
- יָאִ֖יר1
- יָאִ֔יר1
- יָאִ֨יר1
- יָאִ֑יר1
- יָאִ֧יר1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)6HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
Numbers
one use
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- וְיָאִ֤ירveyairconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Jair
Deuteronomy
one use
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.
- יָאִ֣ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
Joshua
one use
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;
- יָאִ֛ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
Judges
two uses
Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
- יָאִ֖ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
- יָאִ֔ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
1 Kings
one use
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);
- יָאִ֨ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
1 Chronicles
one use
Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- יָאִ֑ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
Esther
one use
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.
- יָאִ֧ירyairproper noun (a name)tagged: Jair
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.