Havoth-jair
the villages that enlighten
Havoth-jair [nave]
HAVOTH-JAIR, called also Bashanhavoth-jair in Deut. 3:14.Certain villages E. of the Jordan, Num. 32:41; Judg. 10:4.
Havoth-jair [ebd]
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 Kings 4:13; 1 Chr. 2:22, 23.)
