And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth-jair.
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
Havoth-jair - That is, the villages or habitations of Jair; and thus they should have been translated. As these two tribes and a half were the first, says Ainsworth, who had their inheritance assigned to them in the promised land, so they were the first of all Israel that were carried captive out of their own land, because of their sins. "For they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after other gods. And God delivered them into the hands of Pul and Tiglath-Pilneser, kings of Assyria, and they brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan, unto this day." See 1 Chronicles 5:25, 1 Chronicles 5:26.
The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror of Argob Deuteronomy 3:14 - gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luke 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighboring city of Capernaum.
Havoth-jair - That is, the villages, or rather groups of tents, or "kraals," of Jair. Originally they were twenty-three in number 1 Chronicles 2:22 : in the days of the youuger Jair, to whom they probably descended by inheritance, they either had increased to thirty, or were reckoned at that round number Judges 10:4.