יָאִירYâʼîyr

Meanings

Same root

• אוֹרʼôwr · H215to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
• ἸάειροςIáeiros · G2383Jairus (i.e. Jair), an Israelite
• יָאִרִיYâʼirîy · H2972a Jairite or descendant of Jair

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

• Numbers 32:41 The people of Jair, another clan of the tribe of Manasseh, captured many of the towns in Gilead and changed the name of that region to the Towns of Jair.
• Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh, conquered the whole Argob region in Bashan, all the way to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. Jair renamed this region after himself, calling it the Towns of Jair, as it is still known today.)
• Joshua 13:30 Their territory extended from Mahanaim, including all of Bashan, all the former kingdom of King Og, and the sixty towns of Jair in Bashan.
• Judges 10:3 After Tola died, Jair from Gilead judged Israel for twenty-two years.
• Judges 10:5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
• 1 Kings 4:13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead, including the Towns of Jair (named for Jair of the tribe of Manasseh) in Gilead, and in the Argob region of Bashan, including sixty large fortified towns with bronze bars on their gates.