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Jair

Also called Jaare-oregim

Mentioned in 1017 BC traditional (Jones)

The father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath (1 Chr. 20:5).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Child
Elhanan
Tagged in
2 verses

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.

Family tree of Jair: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

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.

  1. possible location: Gob1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1042–992 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Jair’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Jair in 2 tagged verses across 2 books.

Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Samuel1
  2. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJair 10Jaare-oregim 0
KJVJair 10Jaare-oregim 0
ASVJair 10Jaare-oregim 1

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 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Samuel1 verse
  1. 21:19

    Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 20:5

    Once again there was a battle with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The father of Elhanan, who slew Lahmi, the brother of Goliath (1 Chr. 20:5).