Jair
Mentioned 1469–1013 BC traditional (Jones)
Son of Segub. Mentioned in 4 verses, first in Numbers 32:41.
Compiled from the tagged verses.
- The 28th generation from Adam, counting Adam as the first.
- Mentioned in the era of the Judges, 1450–1051 BC.
- Named in the same verses as Geber, Segub, and son of Geber.
Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).
Family
Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.
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Places
Places named in the same verses as Jair, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.
- location not graded: Argob2
- location not graded: East Manasseh (Half-Tribe)2
- location not graded: Gilead2
- location not graded: Havvoth-jair2
- location not graded: Bashan1
- likely location: Ramoth-gilead1
Timeline
The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1583–899 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.
Mentions
4 tagged verses in 4 books. Select a book to read its verses.
The name in each translation
| Text | Occurrences of each name |
|---|---|
| BSB | Jair 10 |
| KJV | Jair 10 |
| ASV | Jair 10 |
Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts
Every verse
All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Numbers1 verse
- 32:41
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
Deuteronomy1 verse
- 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.
1 Kings1 verse
- 4:13
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);
1 Chronicles1 verse
- 2:22
Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.