Hebrew word · H2972

יָאִרִי

haiya'iri

Jairite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

Someone descended from Jair who was a man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Num.32.41;

son of: Segub (H7687H)

Group of ya.ir (יָאִיר "Jair" H2971)

§ Jairite = "descendant of Jair"

1) a descendant of Jair

1a) Ira the Jairite was a priest to David

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Similar words

Where it appears

2 Samuel · 1

  1. 2 Samuel 20:26 הַיָּ֣אִרִ֔י the Jairite

    and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.