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Jair
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Jair (jâ'ir), whom Jehovah enlightens. 1. A chief warrior under Moses, descended from the most powerful family of Judah and Manasseh. He took all the country of Argob (the modern Lejah) on the east side of Jordan, and, besides, some villages in Gilead, which he called Havoth-jair, "villages of Jair." 1 Chronicles 2:21-23; Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14 : comp. Joshua 13:30. 2. Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel 22 years. "He had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass-colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair, which are in Gilead." Judges 10:3 to Judges 5:3. A Benjamite, father of Mordecai. Esther 2:6. 4 In 1 Chronicles 20:5, in the A. V., Jair occurs, but it is a totally different name in Hebrew, meaning "whom God awakens." This Jair was the father of Elhanan, who killed Lachmi, the brother of Goliath. He is called Jaare-oregim in 2 Samuel 21:19.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Jair'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/j/jair.html. 1893.
