# יָאִיר (yair)

Israeli respelling: ya-ir. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2971. 9 Old Testament occurrences.

Jair, the name of four Israelites

King James renderings: Jair.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yair-h2971

## Occurrences

- [Numbers 32:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/41) — And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
- [Deuteronomy 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/3/14) — Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan…
- [Joshua 13:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/30) — And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threes…
- [Judges 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/3) — And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
- [Judges 10:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/10/5) — And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
- [1 Kings 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/4/13) — The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the r…
- [1 Chronicles 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/22) — And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
- [1 Chronicles 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/23) — And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belo…
- [Esther 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/5) — Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamit…