Bible Person
Meaning: Jairus · Male · 2 cross references
This Jair entry refers to the father of Elhanan in the giant-slaying tradition of Chronicles and Samuel, not to Jair the judge. He appears through a family connection to a notable warrior exploit. First appears in 2 Sam 21:19.1
AI summary: This Jair matters because the cross references place his house behind Elhanan in one of the remembered war traditions from David's era. Though Jair himself is not a public actor, his preserved name anchors the exploit within a real family line. Taken together, the material presents this Jair as the paternal background to a warrior tradition linked to David's battles.1
Central Figure
Jair
Meaning: Jairus
The father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath (1 Chr.
Children
The father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath (1 Chr. 20:5). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.