Strong’s H5896 · Hebrew
עִירָא
ʻÎyrâʼ · ee-raw'
Origin from עוּר (H5782); wakefulness;
Meaning Ira, the name of three Israelites
In the King James Version Ira.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Samuel 20:26And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
- 2 Samuel 23:26Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- 2 Samuel 23:38Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:28Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:40Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:9The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.