Easton's Bible Dictionary Enlightener. (1.) The son of Segub. He was brought up with his mother in Gilead, where he had possessions (1 Chronicles 2:22). He distinguished himself in an expedition against Bashan, and settled in the part of Argob on the borders of Gilead. The small towns taken by him there are called Havoth-jair, i.e., "Jair's villages" (Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30). (2.) The eighth judge of Israel, which he ruled for twenty-two years. His opulence is described in Judges 10:3-5. He had thirty sons, each riding on "ass colts." They had possession of thirty of the sixty cities (1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:23) which formed the ancient Havoth-jair. (3.) A Benjamite, the father of Mordecai, Esther's uncle (Esther 2:5). (4.) The father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath (1 Chronicles 20:5). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia JAIR ja'-er: (1) Jair (ya'ir, "he enlightens" or "one giving light"): (a) Son, i.e. descendant of Manasseh (Numbers 32:41 Deuteronomy 3:14 Joshua 13:30 1 Kings 4:13 1 Chronicles 2:22 f). According to 1 Chronicles 2:21 he was the son of ScRub, son of Hezron, a descendant of Judah, who married the daughter of Machir, son of Manasseh. He was thus descended both from Judah and Manasseh. At the time of the conquest he distinguished himself by taking the tent-villages HAVVOTH-JAIR (which see). The accounts of his exploit are difficult to harmonize (see ICC on above passages). Some would identify him with the Jair of Judges 10:3, holding that Manasseh's settlement in Northern Gilead and Bashan took place, not before Israel's passage of the Jordan, but after the settlement of the tribe on the West. For a criticism of this view see HGHL, 577, note (b) One of the judges. He is said to have had 30 sons, who rode on 30 ass colts, and who had as many cities, known as Havvoth-jair (Judges 10:3, 4). One tradition identifies (a) and (b). Others reconcile the two narratives by interpreting the word "son" in a non-literal sense. (c) The father of Mordecai (Esther 2:5). In the Apocrypha (Additions to Esther 11:2) his name is given as "Jairus" (Iaeiros). (2) Jair (Qere: ya`ir, "he arouses"; Kethibh: ya`ur; a different name from (1) above): The father of Elhanan, the giant-slayer (1 Chronicles 20:5). In the parallel passage (2 Samuel 21:19) his name is given as "Jaare-oregim," but the text should be corrected to Jair, "oregim" ('oreghim) having crept in from the line below through a copyist's error. James Crichton

Multi-Version Concordance Jair (14 Occurrences) Mark 5:22 Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Luke 8:41 Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet, and begged him to come into his house, (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.) (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV( Joshua 13:30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Judges 10:3 After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV) Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV) Judges 10:5 Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS NIV) 2 Samuel 21:19 And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod. (BBE) 1 Kings 4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) 1 Chronicles 2:22 Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) 1 Chronicles 2:23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) 1 Chronicles 20:5 There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Esther 2:5 There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)