Tlio only method of fixing more nearly the centres of these two divisions of HavUah is to look for some trace of the name yet existing. But, although Oriental names linger with great vitality in the regions where they have arisen, yet the frequent transference of names, caused by trade or by political revolutions, renders such indication very uncertain (Von Bohlen, on Gen. x, 7). We sliall therefore content ourselves with mentioning that SJrabo, cjuoting Eratosthenes, places the XavXo- Ta7oL near the Nabathcei, north of the Arabian Gulf (Strabo, xvi, 4), and that Ptolemy (iv, 7) mentions the AvaVirai, on the African coast, near Bab-el-Mandeb, the modem Zeylah (comp. Plin. vi, 28; Gcscn. Thes. i, 452). Niebuhr also finds two Khtiwlans in Yemen, one a to-\ni between Sanaa and IMecca, the other a district some miles to the .south-east of Sanaa {Beschr. Arab. p. 270, 280; sec further, Biischung, Erdbeschr.Y, i, 601; Mi- chaclis, Spidlcf). i, 189; ii, 202; Forster, Geog. of Aral. i, 40, 41, etc.). These names may very possiblj' "be
traces of the great Biblical country of Havilah Kitto,
8. V. See ETiixoi.ofiY.
The district of Khawlan lies between the city of Sa- na and the Hijaz, i. e. in the north-western portion of the Yemen. It took its name, according to the Arabs, from KhAwlan, a descendant of Kahtan [see Joktan] {Mdnh'ul, s. v.), or, as some say, of Kahlaii, brother of Himycr (Caussin, Essai, i, 1 l.S, and Tab. ii). This gen- ealogy says little more than that the name was .Toktan- itc; and the difference between Kahtan and Kahlan may l)o neglected, both being descendants of the first Joktanitc settler, and the whole of these early tradi- tions pointing to a Joktanite settlement, without per- haps a distinct preservation of .loklan's name, and cer- tainly none of a correct genealogj' from him downwards.
Kluiwlan is a fertile territory, embracing a large part of myrrhiferous Arabia, mountainous, with plenty of water, and supporting a large population. It is a tract of Arabia better known to lioth ancients and moderns than the rest of the Yemen, and the eastern and central provinces. It adjoins Nejran (the district and town of that name), mentioned in tlie account of the expedition of J'.lius Gallus, and the scene of great persecutions of the Christians by Dhu-Xuwas, the last of the Tubbaas l)ef(>rp the Abyssinian conquest of Arabia, in the year
52;^> of <iur ajra (compare Caussin, Essai, i, 121 sq.)
Smith, s. V.
Ha'voth-Ja'ir (Ileb. Chavvoth' Yuir', ^iN^ rhn
hamlets of J air [i. e. the enUghtene?-'] ; Sept. iTravXeiQ and (cw/uoi 'leap, OavwSr, etc.; Vidg. viciis, or viculus, or Ilavoth Jair, etc.), the name of a settlement or dis- trict east of the Jordan. The word Cliavvuh, which oc- curs in the Bible in this comiection only, is perhaps best explained by the similar term in modem 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 ami Pal. App. § 84), such as constitutes an Arab village or small town. See Topographical Terjis.
(1.) The earliest notice of the Havoth-jair is in Numb. xxxii,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 Gilcad, which was allotted to his tribe, and to have named them after himself, Havvoth-jair. (2.) In Dent, iii, 14 it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob unto the boimdary of the Geshurite and the IMaacathite, and called them [i. e. the places of that region] after his own name, Ba- shan-havoth-jair." (.3.) In the records of Manasseh in Josh, xiii, 30, and 1 Chron. ii, 23 (A. V., in both " towns of Jair"), the Havvoth-jair are reckoned with other dis- tricts as making up sixty "cities" (D''"'?). In 1 Kings iv, 13 they are named as part of the commissariat dis- trict of Ben-geber, next in order to the " sixty great cit- ies" of Argob, as the Eng. Vers, has it ; but probably the latter designation is only added for definiteness, and re- fers to the same region. (4.) No less doubtful is the number of the Havvoth-jair. In 1 Chron. ii, 22 they are specified as twenty-three, but in Judg. x, 4, as thirty. — Smith, s. V. See Jair.
From these statements some have inferred that there were two separate districts called Chavvoth- Yair (see Eeland, /"afes^ p. 483), one in Gilead, and the other in Bashan (Porter, Z'«???((,w/.«, ii, 270). But in order to rec- oncile the different passages where thej'' are spoken of, it is only necessarv' to suppose that having first been captured by the original Jair when they were mere no- made hamlets, and but 23 in number, they were after- wards occupied and increased to 30 by the judge Jair, and that they were usualh' regarded as part of the sixty considerable places comprised within the general tract of Bashan, including Gilead. See Argob.
Haweis, Thomas, an English theologian, was bom at Truro (Cornwall) in 1734. He was first apprenticed to a druggist, but afterwards studied at Christ College, Cambridge, and took the degree of B.L. He soon after entered the Church, and became assistant of IVIadan, chaplain of Lock Hospital. The latter afterwards gave him the rectorship of All Saints (Xorthamjitonshire) ; and the countess of Huntingdon gave him alto the di- rection of several chapels she had erected, and of her seminarj' for theological students. He became director of the London IMissionary Society at its foundation, and died in 1820. He published several books of practical, but not of scientific value ; among them are History of the Church (Loud. 1800, 3 vols. 8vo) -.—Life of the Rev. William. Romuine (Lond. 1798,8vo) : — State of the Evan- gelical Religion throughout the World (Syo) : — The Evan- gelical Expositor, a Comment on the Bible (Lond. 17C5, 2 vols. fol. : of little value) : — New Translation of the New Testament (Lond. 1795, 8vo) :— Communicant's Companion (Lond. 1703, 12mo; often reprinted): — Fifteen Sermons (new ed. Oxford, 1835, 12mo). See Eose, New Gc-n. Biog. Diet. ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxiii, 624.