- Jair
:"For the Brazilian footballer, see
Jair da Rosa Pinto .:"For the Brazilian singer, seeJair Oliveira .:"For the Baseball player, seeJair Jurrjens .Jair (Hebrew יאיר "Ya'ir") was a man from
Gilead (Tribe of Manasseh , east of the River Jordan), who judged Israel for twenty-two years, after the death of Tola. His inheritance was in Gilead through the line of Machir, the son of Manasseh. Jair was the son of Segub, the son of Hezron the Jew through the daughter of Machir (1 Chronicles 2). According to Judges 10:3-5, Jair had thirty sons, who rode thirty ass colts, and thirty 'cities' inGilead which came to be known asHavoth-Jair . The word "chawwoth" ('tent encampments') occurs only in this context ("Numbers" 32:41; "Deuteronomy" 3:14; "Judges" 10:4), and is a legacy word remaining from the earlynomadic stage of Hebrew culture. W. Ewing suggests that Kamon probably corresponds to Kamun taken by theSeleucid king Antiochus III, on his march fromPella toGephrun (Polybius Book V.70:12).Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
See also
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Biblical judges
*Book of Judges External links
* [http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4167 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=689&letter=J&search=Judges Book of Judges article] (Jewish Encyclopedia)
* [http://www.kingscalendar.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=164 The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran] (Chronology for Israel's Period of the Judges 1412 BCE to 1039 BCE)
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