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 (Numbers 32:41).

(2.) Again, it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob," and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (Deuteronomy 3:14). (See also Joshua 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:22, 23.)




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