HebrewH5896Proper Noun (Masculine)
עִירָא
i.ra
“Ira”
6Occurrences
H5896Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
Ira, the name of three Israelites
from H5782 (עוּר); wakefulness;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at § Ira = "watchful of a city" 1) the Jairite, one of David's great officers 2) one of David's mighty warriors 3) a Tekoite, son of Ikkesh, and another of David's mighty warriors
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Proper Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
N:N-M-P
Full Description
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
עִירָא appears 6 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
1 Chronicles
3
2 Samuel
3
Key Passages
1 Chronicles 11:28BSB
Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,Abiezer the Anathothite,
1 Chronicles 11:40BSB
Ira the Ithrite,Gareb the Ithrite,
1 Chronicles 27:9BSB
The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
2 Samuel 20:26BSB
and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.
2 Samuel 23:26BSB
Helez the Paltite,Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.