Difference between revisions of "Havoth-Jair"

<li> Again, it is said that [[Jair]] "took all the tract of Argob," and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 3:14 ). (See also &nbsp;Joshua 13:30; &nbsp;1 Kings 4:13; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 2:22,23 .) <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Havoth-Jair'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/h/havoth-jair.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> '''Havoth-Jair''' (''Hâ'Voth-Jâ'Ir'' ), ''Villages Of Jair.'' A title applied to certain villages east of the [[Jordan]] which Jair captured and held. &nbsp;Numbers 32:41; &nbsp;Judges 10:4. The towns of Jair are included with the 60 cities given to Manasseh, &nbsp;Joshua 13:30; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 2:23; but the word rendered "villages"usually means a small collection of hovels in a country place. These towns were a part of one of the revenue districts of Solomon. &nbsp;1 Kings 4:13. </p>

<p> (Heb. Chavvoth' Yair' חִוֹּת יָאַיר ''Hamlets Of Air'' [i.e. the ''Enlightener];'' Sept. ἐπαύλεις and κῶμαι Ι᾿α ‹ ρ, θανώθ, etc.; Vulg. ''Vicus,'' or ''Viculus,'' or ''Havoth Jair,'' etc.), the name of a settlement or district east of the Jordan. The word ''Chavvah,'' which occurs in the Bible in this connection only, is perhaps best explained by the similar term in modern Arabic, which denotes a small collection of huts or hovels in a country place (see the citations in Gesenius, Thesaur. p. 451; and Stanley, [[Sinai]] and Pal. App. § 84), such as constitutes an [[Arab]] village or small town. (See [[Topographical Terms]]). </p> <p> '''(1.)''' The earliest notice of the Havoth-jair is in &nbsp;Numbers 32:41, in the account of the settlement of the trans-Jordanic country, where Jair, son of Manasseh, is stated to have taken some villages (A.V. "the small towns;" but there is no article in the Hebrew) of Gilead, which was allotted to his tribe, and to have named them after himself, Havvoth-jair. </p> <p> '''(2.)''' In &nbsp;Deuteronomy 3:14 it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob unto the boundary of the [[Geshurite]] and the Maacathite, and called them [i.e. the places of that region] after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair." '''(3.)''' In the records of [[Manasseh]] in &nbsp;Joshua 13:30, and &nbsp;1 Chronicles 2:23 (A.V., in both "towns of Jair"), the Havvoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities" (עָרַים ). II &nbsp;1 Kings 4:13 they are named as part of the commissariat district of Ben-geber next in order to the "sixty great cities" of-Argob, as the Eng.Vers. has it; but probably the latter designation is only added for definiteness, and refers to the same region. </p> <p> '''(4.)''' No less doubtful is the number of the Havvoth-jair. In &nbsp;1 Chronicles 2:22 they are specified as twenty-three, but in &nbsp;Judges 10:4, as thirty. (See Jair). </p> <p> From these statements some have inferred that there were two separate districts called Chavvoth-Yair (see Reland, Palcest. p. 483), one in Gilead, and the other in [[Bashan]] (Porter, Damascus, 2, 270). But in order to reconcile the different passages where they are spoken of; it is only necessary to suppose that having first been captured by the original Jair when they were mere nomad hamlets, and but 23 in number, they were afterwards occupied and increased to 30 by the judge Jair, and that they were usually regarded as part of the sixty considerable places comprised within the general tract of Bashan, including Gilead. (See [[Argob]]). </p>