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# יָעִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3265

**Jair(from the margin)** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jair(from the margin) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3265/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָעוֹר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3265/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Kt, יָעִיר Qr, n.pr.m. father of Elḫanan the giant-slayer 1 Ch 20:5 (Ιαειρ) + ‖ 2 S 21:19 (where read יעיר for יַעֲרֵי, and del. אֹרְגִים, v. Th We Dr Bu Kit HPS).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jair (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 20:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.20.5/#tree)

וַתְּהִי־ע֥וֹד מִלְחָמָ֖ה אֶת־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּ֞ךְ אֶלְחָנָ֣ן בֶּן־יָעִ֗יר אֶת־לַחְמִי֙ אֲחִי֙ גָּלְיָ֣ת הַגִּתִּ֔י וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֔וֹ כִּמְנ֖וֹר אֹרְגִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was again a.battle with \[the\].Philistines and he.struck.down Elhanan the.son of.Jair (et) Lahmi the.brother of.Goliath the Gittite and the.wood his.spear his \[was\].like a.beam of.weavers

*JPS 1917:* And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3265.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3265/): 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).