English Standard Version
1 Chronicles 2:22
22And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
- New International Version (NIV)Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:22
20Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. 21Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub. And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. 23But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead. 24After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:22 word by word
וּשְׂג֖וּב הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יָאִ֑יר וַֽיְהִי־ל֗וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וְשָׁלוֹשׁ֙ עָרִ֔ים בְּאֶ֖רֶץ הַגִּלְעָֽד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- And Segubשְׂגוּבώegûb · SegubH7687
- begatיָלַדyâlad · to begetH3205
- Jairיָאִירyâ'îyr · JairH2971
- who had threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
- and twentyעֶשְׂרִים‛eώrîym · twentyH6242
- citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
- in the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- of Gileadגִּלְעָדgil‛âd · GileadH1568
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:22
- Numbers 32:41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
- Joshua 13:30Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:22
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Jair, who had three and twenty cities - The places called “Havoth-Jair” in the earlier Scriptures (see Numbers 32:41 note), which appear to have been a number of “small towns,” or villages, in the Ledjah, the Classical “Trachonitis.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-23Some families from Gilead, who are listed as part of the tribe of Manasseh (see Numbers 32:39–42), also had ties to the tribe of Judah.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead--As the son of Segub and the grandson of Hezron, he was of the tribe of Judah; but from his maternal descent he is called (Nu 32:41; De 3:14) "the son of Manasseh." This designation implies that his inheritance lay in that tribe in right of his grandmother; in other words, his maternal and adopting great-grandfather was Machir the son of Manasseh. Jair, inheriting his property, was his lineal…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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