- JAIRUS a ruler of the synagogue at Capernaum, whose only daughter
Jesus restored to life (Mark 5:22; Luke 8:41). Entering into the chamber of
death, accompanied by Peter and James and John and the father and
mother of the maiden, he went forward to the bed whereon the corpse lay,
and said, Talitha cumi, i.e., “Maid, arise,” and immediately the spirit of the
maiden came to her again, and she arose straightway; and “at once to
strengthen that life which had come back to her, and to prove that she was
indeed no ghost, but had returned to the realities of a mortal existence, he
commanded to give her something to eat” (Mark 5:43). - JAKEH pious, the father of Agur (Proverbs 30:1). Nothing is known of
him. - JAKIM establisher. (1.) Chief of the twelfth priestly order (1 Chronicles
24:12).
(2.) A Benjamite (1 Chronicles 8:19).
(3.) Margin in Matthew 1:11 means Jehoiakim.
- JALON lodger, the last of the four sons of Ezra, of the tribe of Judah (1
Chronicles 4:17). - JAMBRES one of those who opposed Moses in Egypt (2 Timothy 3:8).
(See JANNES.) - JAMES (1.) The son of Zebedee and Salome; an elder brother of John the
apostle. He was one of the twelve. He was by trade a fisherman, in
partnership with Peter (Matthew 20:20; 27:56). With John and Peter he
was present at the transfiguration (Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:2), at the raising
of Jairus’s daughter (Mark 5:37-43), and in the garden with our Lord
(14:33). Because, probably, of their boldness and energy, he and John were
called Boanerges, i.e., “sons of thunder.” He was the first martyr among
the apostles, having been beheaded by King Herod Agrippa (Acts 12:1, 2),
A.D. 44. (Comp. Matthew 4:21; 20:20-23).
(2.) The son of Alphaeus, or Cleopas, “the brother” or near kinsman or
cousin of our Lord (Galatians 1:18, 19), called James “the Less,” or “the
Little,” probably because he was of low stature. He is mentioned along
with the other apostles (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15). He had a
separate interview with our Lord after his resurrection (1 Corinthians
15:7), and is mentioned as one of the apostles of the circumcision (Acts