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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

Jos 13:30

and 1Chr 2:23 the Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Comp.

1Ki 4:13

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

1Ch 2:22

they are specified as twenty-three, but in

Jg 10:4

as thirty.

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