Jair in the Bible
Meaning: Jairus, my light; who diffuses light
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Israel » Under the judges » Led » Jair
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years. He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair -- they are in the land of Gilead.
Jair » Son of manasseh. Founder of twenty-three cities in gilead
Ben-Geber was in charge of Ramoth Gilead; he controlled the tent villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan, including sixty large walled cities with bronze bars locking their gates.
Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.
Their territory started at Mahanaim and encompassed all Bashan, the whole realm of King Og of Bashan, including all sixty cities in Havvoth Jair in Bashan.
Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. (Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.
Jair » Son of manasseh
Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the Argob region as far as the border with the Geshurites and Maacathites (namely Bashan) and called it by his name, Havvoth-Jair, which it retains to this very day.)
Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.
Jair » A judge
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
Jair » Judge
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years. He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair -- they are in the land of Gilead. Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
Jair » Father of elhanan
There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver's loom.
Jair » A benjamite
Now there happened to be a Jewish man in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai. He was the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite,
Judge » Jair
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years. He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair -- they are in the land of Gilead. Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
extraordinary Judges » Names of » Jair
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
The tribe of Manasseh » Remarkable persons of » Jair
Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.