Yair Tilinger
Yair may refer to: *A spelling variant of the Jewish name Jair or Ya'ir *Yair (name), list of people with the name Yair *Yair, Scottish Borders Yair, also known as The Yair, is an estate in the Scottish Borders. It stands by the River Tweed in the former county of Selkirkshire, north-west of Selkirk, and south of Edinburgh. The name comes from the old Scots word for a fish trap. Th ...

Jair
In the Biblical Book of Judges, Jair or Yair ( he, יָאִיר ''Yā’īr'', "he enlightens") was a man from Gilead of the Tribe of Manasseh, east of the River Jordan, who judged Israel for 22 years, after the death of Tola, who had ruled of 23 years. His inheritance was in Gilead through the line of Machir, the son of Manasseh. Yair was the son of Segub, the son of Hezron through the daughter of Machir ( 1 Chronicles 2). According to Judges 10:3–5, Yair had thirty sons, who rode thirty ass colts, and controlled 30 cities in Gilead which came to be known as Havoth-Yair (Judges 10:4; cf. 23 towns in 1 Chronicles 2:22). The word ''chawwoth'' ('tent encampments') occurs only in this context (''Numbers'' 32:41; ''Deuteronomy'' 3:14; ''Judges'' 10:4). Yair died and was buried in Camon (or Kamon). W. Ewing suggests that Kamon probably corresponds to Kamun taken by the Seleucid king Antiochus III, on his march from Pella to Gephrun (Polybius Book V.70:12). After his death there ...
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Yair (name)
Yair ( he, ) is a Hebrew given name. Jair is a variant. It may also be used as a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Jair or Yair, the father of Mordecai *Yair Bacharach (1639—1702) – Rabbi in Germany * Yair Davidovitz (born 1945), Israeli Olympic sport shooter *Yair Golan (born 1962), Israeli politician and former general in the Israel Defense Forces * Yair Kless (born 1940), Israeli violinist and professor *Yair Lapid (born 1963), Israeli politician * Yair Lotan (born 1973), actor *Yair Michaeli (born 1944), Israeli Olympic competitive sailor *Yair Netanyahu (born 1991), son of the current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu *Yair Nossovsky (born 1937), Israeli footballer * Yair Pantilat (born 1939), Israeli Olympic runner * Yair Rodriguez (born 1992), Mexican mixed martial artist * Yair Rosenblum (1944–1996), Israeli composer *Yair Sprinzak (1911–1999) – Israeli scientist and Member of Knesset *Yair Tauman, Israeli professor and businessman * Yair Tzaban (bor ...
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