Difference between revisions of "Havothjair"
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<p> | <p> '''Havoth-ja'ir.''' (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; Deuteronomy 3:14. In the records of [[Manasseh]] in Joshua 13:30 and 1 Chronicles 2:23, the Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Compare 1 Kings 4:13. </p> <p> 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 1 Chronicles 2:22, they are specified as twenty-three, but in Judges 10:4, as thirty. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66728" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_66728" /> == | ||
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35765" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35765" /> == | ||
<p> (See | <p> (See BASHAN HAVOTH-JAIR.) </p> | ||
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Revision as of 19:55, 12 October 2021
Smith's Bible Dictionary [1]
Havoth-ja'ir. (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; Deuteronomy 3:14. In the records of Manasseh in Joshua 13:30 and 1 Chronicles 2:23, the Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Compare 1 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 1 Chronicles 2:22, they are specified as twenty-three, but in Judges 10:4, as thirty.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [2]
This signifies 'towns of Jair.' They were in "the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi;" and were also called Bashan-havoth-jair." Deuteronomy 3:14 . They were small towns of Gilead. Numbers 32:41 . The same are called 'towns of Jair' in Joshua 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:23 . The name occurs again in Judges 10:4 . See JAIR.
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [3]
Huts of Jair, a district in Gilead, containing thirty hamlets belonging to the thirty sons of Jair, judges of Israel, Numbers 32:41; Judges 10:3,4 .
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [4]
(See BASHAN HAVOTH-JAIR.)
