JAIR (Heb. Jā'ir). - 1. An Israelite, of the tribe of Judah on his father's side, and of the tribe of Manasseh on his grandmother's side. The dan of J. belongs to the half-tribe of Manasseh settled in Transjordan.

J. conquered the thirty Amorite cities, south of the Jarmūq, in Gilead, which he called havvoth J., that is, encampments inhabited by semi-nomads (Num. 32:41; Judg. 10:4; 1 Sam. 4:13; 1 Chron. 2:22). Less exact and secondary is the tradition that places these cities in Bashan (Deut. 3:14; Josh. 13:30). The 60 cities in Bashan, which 1 Chron. 2:23 seems to attribute to J., were conquered by Nobah (Num. 32:42).

2. Probably distinct from the preceding and his descendant is J. of Gilead, judge of Israel for 22 years; father of 30 sons and master of 30 cities (only the Vulgate adds "which he called by his own name"). He was buried at Camon, near el-Hoṣn (Judg. 10:3 ff.).

3. A Benjaminite, father of Mordecai (Esth. 2:5).

4. One of the principal members of the synagogue of Capernaum (Greek: Ἰάειρος), whose [daughter] the Lord raised
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the twelve-year-old daughter (Mt. 9:18 ff., 23-26; Mk. 5:22 ff., 35-46; Lk. 8:40 ff., 49-56).

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BIBL.: L. Desnoyers, Histoire du peuple hébreu, I, Paris 1922, pp. 79, 188; M.-J. Lagrange, Évangile selon St Marc, 5th ed., ibid. 1920, pp. 138-46; F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II, ibid. 1938, p. 71 f.; A. Fernandez, Commentarius in librum Issue, ibid. 1938, p. 102 ff.; A. Clamer, Les Nombres, Le Deutéronome (La Ste Bible, ed. L. Pirot, 2), ibid. 1940, pp. 453, 533; A. Vaccari, La S. Bibbia, II, Florence 1947, p. 118; L. Marchal, Les Paralipomènes (La Ste Bible, ed. L. Pirot, 4), ibid. 1949, p. 30 f.

Francesco Spadafora

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