3. A Benjamite, son of Shimei and father of Morde- cai, Esther's uncle (Esth. ii, 5). B.C. ante 598.
4. (Heb. Yair', niSi^ marg., but text YaiJr', "lISi^ ; perh. o?<'rtA-e; Sept. 'Ia£(p,Vulg. corruptly sa/?;<s.) The fiither of Elhanan, which latter slew the brother of Go- liath (1 Chron. xx, 5). In the parallel passage (2 Sam. xxi, 19) we find, instead of Jair, " Jaare-" (''ll?;^, ap- parently the phur, of the other word, q. d. '^'S'2, a forest; Sept. 'Iap£,Vulg. again saltus),vfit\i the addition "Or- egim" (D^S^St, loeavers; Sept. v^aivovT6c,Ya\g. poli/- mitarius), which has probably been erroneously taken by transcribers from the latter part of the same verse (see Kennicott's Diss, on the Hebrew Text, i, 78). B.C. ante 1018. See Elhakan.
Ja'irite (2 Sam. xx, 2G). See Jair, 2.
Jai'rus ('la^jpoc, see Jair), an otherwise unknown ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life (Mark v, 22 ; Luke viii, 41 ; conip. Matt, ix, 18). A.D. 27. Some have wrong- ly inferred from our Saviour's words, " The maid is not dead, but sleepeth" (Rautenberg, in the JIannov. Bei- trd(j. z. Nutz. u, Vergniig. 1761, p. 88; Olshausen, Com- ment, i, 321), that the girl was only in a swoon (see Ne- ander, Lehen Jesu, p. 347).
JAi'KUS (laiipoc) also occurs in the Apocrypha (Esth. xi, 2) as a Grrecized form of the name of Jair (q. v.), the father of Mordecai (Esth. ii, 5).
Ja'kan (I Chron. i, 42). See Jaakan.
Ja'keh (Heb. Yakeh', ilp'. pious ; Sept. Sii^diievog [reading tinp], Vulg. i-omens [reading Xj^^]), a name given as that of the father of Agur, the author of the apothegms in Prov. xxx, 1 sq. Interpreters greatly differ as to the person intended. See Agur. The tra- ditional view is that which gives the word a figurative import (q. d. nrijii^ obedience, sc. to God) ; and it will then become an epithet of David, the father of Solomon, a t( rin appropriate to his character, and especially so as ajiilicd to him by a son. Others understand a real name of some unknown Israelite; and, in that case, the most probable supposition is that it denotes the father of the author of some popular maxims selected by " the men of Hezekiah" (perhaps composed by them, or in their time), and thus incorporated with the proverbs of Solomon. But the allusion to these latter compilers in Prov. XXV, 1, appears only to relate to an editing on their part of literary effusions (in part, perhaps, retained in the memory by oral recitation) which are expressly assigned to Solomon as their author. See Provkrbs Prof. Stuart (Coimnent. ad loc.) adopts the suggestion of
Hitzig (in Zeller's Theol. Fa^rJ. 1844, p. 283), assented to by Bertheau {Kurzgef. Exeg. Handb. ad loc), and renders the clause thus : " The words of Agur, the son of her who was obeyed (reading Pl'^p'?) "^ Massa;" and in an extended comparison with the parallel passage (xxi, 1), defends and illustrates this interpretation, making Ja- keh to have been the son and successor of a certain queen of Arabia Pctr»a, chiefly on the ground that the phrase X'^Wri T)^'? ^^^^ "^t'?\' ^'^^ ^^ar no other translation than The loords of Lemuel, king of Massa. But if the construction be thus rendered more facile in this passage, it is more difficult in the other, where N^aatl inpi"",^ cannot be brought nearer his version than The son ofJakeh of Massa. Even this rendering violates in both passages the Masoretic punctuation, which is correctly followed in the Auth.Vers. ; and the interpretation proposed, after all, attributes both names (Agur and Lemuel) to the same person, without so good reason for such variation as there woidd be if they were ascribed as epithets to Solomon. See Ithiel.
Ja'kim (Heb. Yalim', tJ'ip]^, eatablisher), the name of two men. See also Jehoiakiji.
1. (Sept. 'EXucKiiiJ. V. r. 'lawju, Vidg. Jacim.) The head of the twelfth division of the sacerdotal order as arranged by David (1 Chron. xxiv, 12). B.C. 1014.
2. (Sept. TaKti'jU V. r. 'IaK(/i, ViUg. Jacim.) One of the " sons" of Shimhi, a Benjamite resident at Jerusa- lem (1 Chron. viii, 19). B.C. apparently cir. 588.
Jakusi, the Japanese divinitj' of physic. " His idol is placed in a small temple richly adorned, standing up- right on a gilt tarate flower, or f aba jEgyptiaca, under one half of a large cockle-shell extended over his head, which is encircled with a grown of rays. He has a sceptre in his left hand, and in his right hand something unknown. The idol is gilt all over. The Japanese, as they pass by, never fail to pay their reverence to this golden idol, approaching the temple with a low bow, and bareheaded, when they ring a little beU hung up at the entrance, and then, holding both their hands to their foreheads, repeat a prayer. The Japanese relate that this temple was erected to Jakusi by a pious but poor man, who, having discovered an excellent medicinal power, gained so much money by it as to be able to give this testimony of his gratitude to the God of physic." — 'BTonghton, Biblioth. Hist. Sac. i, 499.
Jakut. See Siberia.
Ja'loh (Heb. Yalon', lib;^, lodger; Sept. '\a\iov v. r. 'laf.iwv), the last-named of the four sons of Ezra, of the tribe of Judah, and apparently of a family kindred \rith that of Caleb (1 Chron. iv, 17). B.C. prob. cir. 1618.