JAIRUS (= Jair).This Greek form of the name is used in the Apocrypha (Ad. Est 11:2) for Mordecais father Jair (Est_2:5); and (1Es_5:31) for the head of a family of Temple servants. In NT it is the name of the ruler of the synagogue whose daughter Jesus raised from the dead (Mar_5:22, Luk_8:41). In || Mt. (Mat_9:18) he is not named. The story of this raising comes from the Petrine tradition.
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
"Jair." Ruler of a synagogue in a town near the lake of Gall lee, probably Capernaum. Jesus raised her to life immediately after death (Mat_9:18; Mar_5:22; Luk_8:41). The recurrence of the name in the same region, after the lapse of ages, is an undesigned coincidence, a mark of the truth of the sacred narrative.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ja'irus. (whom God enlightens).
1. A ruler of a synagogue, probably in some town, near the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Mat_9:18; Mar_5:22; Luk_8:41. (A.D. 28).
2. Est_11:2. See Jair, 3.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Ja?irus, a ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose daughter Jesus restored to life (Mar_5:22; Luk_8:41).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Jairus
(Ιάειρος, SEE JAIR ), an otherwise unknown ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter Jesus restored to life (Mar_5:22; Luk_8:41; comp. Mat_9:18). A.D. 27. Some have wrongly inferred from our Savior's words, The maid is not dead(, but sleepeth (Hautenberg, in the Hannov. Beiträg. z. Nutz. u. Vergnüg. 1761, p. 88; Olshausen, Comment. 1, 321), that the girl was only in a swoon (see Neander, Lebene Jesu, p. 347).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.