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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

a-i'-rus, ar'-us (Iairos): the King James Version, one of the heads of a family of temple servants (1 Esdras 5:31 the Revised Version (British and American) JAIRUS), which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; in the Old Testament called Reaiah (Ezr 2:47; Ne 7:50), and classed among the Nethinim.