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| Name | Jair (Yair, Ya'ir) - יָאִיר |
| Gender |  |
| Time of appearance | The Biblical Era |
| Meaning | (He) will illuminate. The future tense masculine singular form of the verb להאיר (leha'ir). |
| History | There are three people called Jair in the Bible: one is the son of Manasseh, son of Joseph; the second is one of the judges of Israel; and the third is Mordecai's father. |
| Citation | "Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite." Esther 2, 5 |
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