Hebrew word · H3265

יָעִיר

ya'ur

Jair

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.21.19;

father of: Elhanan (H0445)

Another name of ya.a.re o.re.gim (יַעֲרֵי אֹרְגִים "Jaare-oregim" H3296)

§ Jair = "forested"

1) father of Elhanan the giant slayer, one of David's mighty warriors

1a) also called 'Jaare-oregim'

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

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 20:5 יָעִ֗יר Jair

    Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

    Here: The father's name. The consonants read 'Ya'ur'; the Masoretic vowels and margin direct readers to say 'Ya'ir' (Jair). The parallel in 2 Samuel 21:19 has 'Ya're-oregim'.

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