JAIRITE

(Jaʹir·ite) [Of (Belonging to) Jair].

The designation of Ira the “priest of David.” (2Sa 20:26) Perhaps Ira was a descendant of the Manassite Jair. But if the Syriac Peshitta is correct, he may have been a priest from the Levite city of Jattir.​—See IRA No. 1.