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Jorai

People · Updated 2026-05-07

Jorai appears once in the text, named in a Gadite kindred list among the eastern tribes settled across the Jordan.

A Gadite Kinsman

The chronicler enumerates the heads of fathers' houses in Gad, then turns to "their brothers of their fathers' houses." Jorai stands fourth in the seven-name roster: "Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven" (1Ch 5:13). The notice supplies no further biography — only kinship, tribe, and the round count of seven that closes the list.