Word Summary
Iaeiros: Jairus, the ruler of a synagogue in Palestine
Original Word: ἸάειροςTransliteration: Iaeiros
Phonetic Spelling: (ee-ah'-i-ros)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Jairus, the ruler of a synagogue in Palestine
Meaning: Jairus -- the ruler of a synagogue in Palestine
Strong's Concordance
Jairus.
Of Hebrew origin (Ya'iyr); Jairus (i.e. Jair), an Israelite -- Jairus.
see HEBREW Ya'iyr
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2383: ἸάειροςἸάειρος,
Ἰαειρου (cf.
Buttmann, 18 (16)),
ὁ (
יָאִיר (i. e. whom Jehovah enlightens),
Numbers 32:41),
Jairus (pronoun, Ja-i'-rus), a ruler of the synagogue, whose daughter Jesus restored to life:
Mark 5:22;
Luke 8:41. (Cf.
B. D. American edition, under the word.)