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JAIR

(Heb. yāʾîr, yāʿîr)

1. A son of Manasseh who captured some of the villages of the Amorites in Bashan in Transjordan and named them Havvoth-jair, “cities of Jair” (Num. 32:41; Deut. 3:14).

2. Jair the Gileadite, a judge. He is said to have had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys and had 30 towns in Gilead (Judg. 10:3-5). A “minor” judge, he is otherwise unknown.

3. The father of Elhanan, who is said to have killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath (1 Chr. 20:5; Heb. yāʿîr). However, in 2 Sam. 21:19 Jaare-oregim is named as the father of Elhanan, who is in turn credited with the slaying of Goliath. The longer form in 2 Samuel is probably a scribal error due to the inadvertent copying of the final word in the verse in MT. If in fact Jaare-oregim is to be identified with Jair, then his home was Bethlehem.

4. A Benjaminite; father of Mordecai, the cousin and guardian of Esther (Esth. 2:5).

Michael L. Ruffin

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JAIR

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)