(8.) hamlets of the enlightener a district in the east of Jordan. (1.) Jair, the son of Manasseh, took some villages of Gilead and called them by this name (Nu 32:41).
(9.) (2.) Again, it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob," and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (De 3:14). (See also Jos 13:30; 1Ki 4:13; 1Ch 2:22-23.)
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called it, that is, Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;
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