Judges 10:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּ֣קָם אַחֲרָ֔יו יָאִ֖יר הַגִּלְעָדִ֑י וַיִּשְׁפֹּט֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם שָׁנָֽה

Transliteration

wə-yāqām after-him yāʾîr ha-gilʿāḏî wə-yišpōṭ ʾeṯ-yiśrāʾēl twenty and-two šānāh

Grammar Details

*wə-yāqām*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and arose/stood up
*yāʾîr*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jair
*ha-gilʿāḏî*: definite article + gentilic adjective, masculine singular - the Gileadite
*wə-yišpōṭ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3ms - and he judged
*ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - Israel
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year

Word Meanings

*wə-yāqām*: arose/stood up/appeared
*wə-yišpōṭ*: judged/governed/ruled

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:
Num 32:29 : 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before Jehovah, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

Similar Verses (AI)

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Judg 10:4-5
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4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
5And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
Judg 10:1-2
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1And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
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1 Chr 2:22-23
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22And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
23And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
Judg 12:7-9
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7And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
8And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
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Judg 15:20
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20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Num 32:41
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41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Judg 12:11
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Judg 12:13-14
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13And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
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Deut 3:14
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Judg 9:22
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22And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
2 Kgs 13:1
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1In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
2 Kgs 10:36
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36And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
Judg 11:11
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11Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.
Judg 16:31
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2 Kgs 3:1
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Josh 23:1
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Judg 11:39-40
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39And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it was a custom in Israel,
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2 Kgs 13:10
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1 Kgs 22:51
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Judg 3:30-31
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30So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.
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Judg 11:5
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2 Sam 20:26
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Judg 11:32
66%
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Acts 13:20
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1 Sam 7:15-16
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15And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
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Judg 8:28
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Judg 3:10-11
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2 Chr 21:5
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1 Kgs 22:2
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1 Kgs 4:13
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13Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; [even] to him [pertained] the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars);
Josh 12:23
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2 Chr 27:1
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Judg 11:29
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Judg 11:26
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