Jair

Belongs to: Tribe of Judah

Father: Segub

Several people in the Bible have this name. The verses below may mix them up.

Mentioned in 4 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Jair is mentioned

  • 1 Chronicles 2:22

    Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

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  • 1 Kings 4:13–14

    13 Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

    14 Ahinadab son of Iddo in Mahanaim;

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  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

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  • Numbers 32:41

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

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