KJV King James Version
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
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Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
WEB World English Bible
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.
ASV American Standard Version
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jair son of Manasseh hath gone and captureth their towns, and calleth them ‘Towns of Jair;’
Surrounding context — Numbers 32
38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which [was] in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְיָאִ֤ירH2971 · ya.irJairבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childמְנַשֶּׁה֙H4519 · me.nash.shehManassehהָלַ֔ךְH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוַיִּלְכֹּ֖דH3920 · la.khadto captureאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]חַוֹּתֵיהֶ֑םH2333 · chav.vahvillageוַיִּקְרָ֥אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toאֶתְהֶ֖ןH853 · et[Obj.]חַוֹּ֥תH2334 · chau.vot ya.irHavvoth-jairיָאִֽיר׃H2334 · chau.vot ya.irHavvoth-jair
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead.Joshua 13:30And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities:1 Kings 4:13The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him [pertained] the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which [are] in Gilead; to him [also pertained] the region of Argob, which [is] in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:1 Chronicles 2:21-23And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he [was] threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.
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