Strong's #5896: `Iyra' (pronounced ee-raw')

from 5782; wakefulness; Ira, the name of three Israelites:--Ira.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛ı̂yrâ'

Ira = "watchful of a city"

1) the Jairite, one of David' s great officers

2) one of David' s mighty warriors

3) a Tekoite, son of Ikkesh, and another of David' s mighty warriors

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H5782

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

2 Samuel 20:26: " And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David."
2 Samuel 23:26: "Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,"
2 Samuel 23:38: " Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,"
1 Chronicles 11:28: " Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,"
1 Chronicles 11:40: " Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,"
1 Chronicles 27:9: "The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in"