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# יָאִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2971

**Jair** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2971/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָאִיר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2971/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (he enlightens, or one giving light). son of Manasseh Nu 32:41(×2) Dt 3:14(×2) Jos 13:30 1 K 4:13 1 Ch 2:22, 23. a judge in Gilead Ju 10:3, 4, 5. father of Mordecai Est 2:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jair (7); Jair (5).

## In the verses

[Judges 10:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.5/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָת יָאִ֔יר וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּקָמֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Jair and he.was.buried in Kamon

*JPS 1917:* And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

[Judges 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.10.3/#tree)

וַיָּ֣קָם אַחֲרָ֔יו יָאִ֖יר הַגִּלְעָדִ֑י וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.arose after him Jair the Gileadite and he.judged (et) Israel twenty and two year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2971.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2971/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).