Yaʻăzêyr — H3270

Definition

locative proper noun

Jaazer or Jazer, a place East of the Jordan

1. Jazer or Jaazer = "helped"
2. a Levitical city east of the Jordan, in Gilead in the territory of Gad, formerly an Amorite city; site uncertain

Usually translated as

Jazer, Jaazer

Origin

or Yaʻzêr; from H5826; helpful

• Derived from ʻâzar (H5826)

Occurrences

Yaʻăzêyr occurs 13 times in 12 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (4), Joshua (2), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1)

• Numbers 21:32 — And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer (יַעְזֵ֔ר), and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
• Numbers 32:1 — Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer (יַעְזֵר֙), and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
• Numbers 32:3 — Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer (וְיַעְזֵ֣ר), and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
• Numbers 32:35 — And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer (יַעְזֵ֖ר), and Jogbehah,
• Joshua 13:25 — And their coast was Jazer (יַעְזֵר֙), and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
• Joshua 21:39 — Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer (יַעְזֵ֖ר) with her suburbs; four cities in all.
• 2 Samuel 24:5 — And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer (יַעְזֵֽר):
• 1 Chronicles 6:81 — And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer (יַעְזֵ֖יר) with her suburbs.
• 1 Chronicles 26:31 — Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer (בְּיַעְזֵ֥יר) of Gilead.
• Isaiah 16:8 — For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer (יַעְזֵ֥ר), they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
• Isaiah 16:9 — Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer (יַעְזֵר֙) the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
• Jeremiah 48:32 — O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer (יַעְזֵ֤ר): thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.
• Jeremiah 48:32 — O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer (יַעְזֵ֖ר): the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.