Jair (son of Segub)

Jair (son of Segub) is a man living at the time of Egypt and the wilderness, from the tribe of Judah. He is named in 4 verses of the Bible, first in Numbers 32:41.

Family

Verses

Numbers

• Numbers 32:41
  And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 3:14
  Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan–havoth–jair, unto this day.Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 4:13
  The son of Geber, in Ramoth–gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 2:22
  And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.