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Havoth-jair
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 (Num 32:41).
(2.) Again, it is said that Jair “took all the tract of Argob,” and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (Deut 3:14). (See also Josh 13:30; 1 Kgs 4:13; 1 Chr 2:22, 1 Chr 2:23.)
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Numbers 32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
- Judges 10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
