Bible Names

Jair: meaning of the name

Jair means “Jairus, my light; who diffuses light.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Jair in Hebrew and Greek

יָאִיר H2971

Yâʼîyr (yaw-ere') — Jair, the name of four Israelites

from H215 (אוֹר); enlightener;

יָעוּר H3265

Yâʻûwr (yaw-oor') — Jaur, an Israelite

apparently the passive participle of the same as H3293 (יַעַר); wooded;

People named Jair in the Bible

Jair in Scripture

“Jair” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 32:41

    And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.

  • 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–havoth–jair, unto this day.

  • 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, threescore cities:

  • Judges 10:3

    And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

  • Judges 10:5

    And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

  • 1 Kings 4:13

    The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:

  • 1 Chronicles 2:22

    And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

  • 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 belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.