Jair (Num 32:41)
Son of Segub and Shimei, father of Mordecai, in the Exodus and wilderness years. Named in scripture at Numbers 32:41.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
NumbersDeuteronomy2 Samuel1 Kings1 ChroniclesJair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
Numbers 32:41
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Deuteronomy 3:14
and Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
2 Samuel 20:26
Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);
1 Kings 4:13
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:22
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.