Bible Person
Meaning: Jairus · Male · 4 cross references
This Jair entry refers to Jair associated with Jair's towns in Gilead and Bashan, not Jair the judge already separately known in other contexts. He stands at the intersection of family inheritance, conquest, and remembered territory. First appears in Num 32:41.1
AI summary: This Jair matters because the cross references present him through the naming and possession of settlements that bear his legacy. His significance is territorial as much as personal, showing how conquest, inheritance, and memory can become attached to a single ancestral figure. The persistence of his name in later administrative lists underscores that endurance. Taken together, the material presents this Jair as the remembered founder of a territorial legacy in the Transjordan.1
Central Figure
Jair
Meaning: Jairus
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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.