HAVOTHJAIR [smith]
(
villages of Jair), certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair the son of Manasseh, and called after his name. (
Numbers 32:41;
3:14) In the records of Manasseh in (
Joshua 13:30) and 1Chr 2:23 The Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Comp. (
1Â Kings 4:13) There is apparently some confusion in these different statements as to what the sixty cities really consisted of. No less doubtful is the number of the Havoth-Jair. In (
1Â Chronicles 2:22) they are specified as twenty-three, but in (
Judges 10:4) as thirty.
