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יַעֲרֵי אֹרְגִים

Jaare-oregim

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H3296 Strong's Hebrew
Yaʻărêy ʼÔrᵉgîym Transliteration
/yah-ar-ay' o-reg-eem'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

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יערי ארגים (Yaʻărêy ʼÔrᵉgîym) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Jaare-oregim.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. 2 Samuel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is 2 Samuel 21:19. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Jaare-oregim
Modern gloss
Jaare-oregim
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H3296 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
2 Samuel 21:19
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in 2 Samuel 21:19.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Jaareoregim 1×
  • American Standard Version: Jaareoregim 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Jair 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jaare 1×, Oregim 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Jaareoregim” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Jaareoregim” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3296 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Jair” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3296 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Jaare” 1×
  • “Oregim” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Jaare-oregim = "forests of weaver"
  2. a man of Bethlehem, father of Elhanan the giant slayer and one of David's mighty warriors; also called 'Jair'

Word origin

n.pr.m. father of Elḥanan 2 S 21:19 (= יָעִו֯ר 1 Ch 20:5); א׳ prob. scribal error anticipating א׳ in foll. line (We Dr), and יַעֲרֵי error for יָעִיר (We) q.v. sub עור.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from יער (yaʻar) (H3293) — forest.

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H3296 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
אֹרְגִ֜ים Noun, Proper 2 Samuel 21:19 1
יַעְרֵ֨י Noun, Proper 2 Samuel 21:19 1

Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3296, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jaare-oregim). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Forests of the weavers, a Bethlehemite (2 Sam. 21:19), and the father of Elhanan, who slew Goliath. In 1 Chr. 20:5 called JAIR.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(forests of the weavers), (2 Samuel 21:19) a Bethlehemite, and the father of Elhanan who slew Goliath. In the parallel passage, (1 Chronicles 20:5) Jair is found instead of Jaare, and Oregim is omitted. (B.C. 1063.)

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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