Hirah

Hi’rah. (a noble race). An Adullamite, the friend of Judah. Gen 38:1; Gen 38:12 and see Gen 38:20.

Gen 38:1; Gen 38:12.

[Hi’rah]

An Adullamite, a friend of the patriarch Judah. Gen 38:12.

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By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn

An Adullamite, the friend of Judah, at whose house the latter stopped after the sale of Joseph (Gen. xxxviii. 1). Hirah accompanied Judah when he went to Timnah to superintend the shearing of his sheep (ib. verse 12). He was also the messenger that carried the kid from Judah to Tamar (ib. verse 20).

HIRAH.—The Adullamite with whom Judah, according to the story of Gen 38:1-30 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ), appears to have entered into a kind of partnership in the matter of flocks. After Tamar had successfully carried out her stratagem, it was by the hand of his ‘friend’ Hirah that Judah sent the promised kid to the supposed qedçshâh (Gen 38:20 ff.).

hı̄´ra (חירה, ḥı̄rāh; Septuagint Εἰράς, Eirás): A native of Adullam, and a “friend” of Judah (Gen 38:1, Gen 38:12). The Septuagint and the Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 ad) both describe him as Judah’s “shepherd.”