Strong's #2971: Ya'iyr (pronounced yaw-ere')

from 215; enlightener; Jair, the name of four Israelites:--Jair.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

yâ'ı̂yr

Jair = "he enlightens"

1) a descendant of Manasseh who conquered many towns during the time of the conquest

2) the Gileadite, a judge of Israel for 22 years during the time of the judges; father of 30 sons

3) a Benjamite, son of Kish, and father of Mordecai

4) father of Elhanan, one of David' s mighty warriors

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H215

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Numbers 32:41: " And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called"
Deuteronomy 3:14: " Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob"
Joshua 13:30: "king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore"
Judges 10:3: "him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty"
Judges 10:5: " And Jair died, and was buried in Camon."
1 Kings 4:13: "in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead;"
1 Chronicles 2:22: "begot Jair, who had three and twenty cities"
1 Chronicles 2:23: "and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath,"
Esther 2:5: "whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,"