Reference: HAVOTHJAIR
American
Huts of Jair, a district in Gilead, containing thirty hamlets belonging to the thirty sons of Jair, judges of Israel, Nu 32:41; Jg 10:3-4.
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Fausets
(See BASHAN HAVOTH-JAIR.)
Morish
Ha'voth-jair
This signifies 'towns of Jair.' They were in "the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi;" and were also called Bashan-havoth-jair." De 3:14. They were small towns of Gilead. Nu 32:41. The same are called 'towns of Jair' in Jos 13:30; 1Ki 4:13; 1Ch 2:23. The name occurs again in Jg 10:4. See JAIR.
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Smith
Havoth-ja'ir
(villages of Jair), certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair the son of Manasseh, and called after his name.
Nu 32:41; De 3:14
In the records of Manasseh in
and 1Chr 2:23 the Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Comp.
There is apparently some confusion in these different statements as to what the sixty cities really consisted of. No less doubtful is the number of the Havoth-Jair. In
they are specified as twenty-three, but in
as thirty.