4 others in the registry answer to the name Jair. Every Jair in the Bible

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Jair

יָאִיר

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured the region of Gilead.

verses
5
first named
Numbers 32:41
last named
1 Chronicles 2:22
period
Egypt and Wilderness
tribe
Judah

Description

Who was Jair?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Jair was a descendant of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, who played a significant role in the conquest and settlement of the region east of the Jordan River. According to Num.32.41 and Deu.3.14, Jair captured the settlements in Gilead and named them Havvoth-jair, which means "the towns of Jair." 1Ch.2.22 states that Jair controlled twenty-three cities in Gilead. In 2Sa.20.26, a person named Ira the Jairite is mentioned as one of David's officials, possibly indicating that Jair's descendants continued to hold influential positions. 1Ki.4.13 refers to the towns of Jair in the context of Solomon's administrative districts, suggesting that the region remained associated with Jair's name long after his lifetime.

Relations

Direct connections

Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

How the graph connects Jair 10 of 10 entities the graph connects to Jair, in 2 groups: kinship 2, events 8. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.ManassehChild of · Descendant of · 112 versesSegubChild of · 2 versesKinshipJordan1 event · 179 versesGilead1 event · 90 versesBashan1 event · 53 versesArnon1 event · 23 versesHermon Mount1 event · 20 versesArgob1 event · 4 versesHavvoth-jair2 events · 4 versesTwo Amorite Kings1 event · 2 versesEventsJair

Child of

Descendant of

Stands in the same events as

Places

Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

Where the story of Jair happens All 2 places the claims about Jair reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Gilead, Jordan. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Jair there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.GileadJordan
Egypt and WildernessAll 2 places the claims about Jair reach

The pattern

Where Jair is named

Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 5 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSNUMBERS–DEUTERONOMY2 VERSES1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 5 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSNUMBERS–DEUTERONOMY2 VERSES1 CHRONICLES1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

5 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Deuteronomy (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).

Jair is named in 5 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 61 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 5 books.

  1. Numbers1 verse

    32:41

  2. Deuteronomy1 verse

    3:14

  3. 2 Samuel1 verse

    20:26

  4. 1 Kings1 verse

    4:13

  5. 1 Chronicles1 verse

    2:22

Onward

Where this page goes

Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

Sources

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