חַוּוֹת יָעִיר Chavvôwth Yâʻîyr
Meaning
hamlets of Jair, a region of Palestine
In the King James Version: (Bashan-) Havoth-jair.
Derivation: from the plural of H2333 (חַוָּה) and a modification of H3265 (יָעוּר);
Where it is used
- Numbers 32:41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
- Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
- 1 Chronicles 2:23 But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.