Havoth-jair

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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 Kings 4:13; 1 Chr. 2:22, 23.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Havoth-jair, the villages that enlighten