Numbers 32:41

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.^[a]

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Numbers 32:41 in Other Translations

KJV

41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.

ESV

41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.

NLT

41 The people of Jair, another clan of the tribe of Manasseh, captured many of the towns in Gilead and changed the name of that region to the Towns of Jair.

MSG

41 Jair, another son of Manasseh, captured some villages and named them Havvoth Jair (Jair's Tent-Camps).

CSB

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair's Villages.

Numbers 32:41 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:41

And Jair the son of Manasseh
By his mother's side, otherwise he was of the family of Judah; for Hezron, of the family of Judah, married a daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh, by whom he had a son called Segub, who was the father of Jair, ( 1 Chronicles 2:21 1 Chronicles 2:22 ) , the same

went and took the small towns thereof;
of that part of Gilead given to Machir:

and called them Havothjair;
after his own name: in ( Deuteronomy 3:14 ) , they are called Bashanhavothjair.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 32:41 In-Context

39 The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it and drove out the Amorites who were there.

40 So Moses gave Gilead to the Makirites, the descendants of Manasseh, and they settled there.

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.

42 And Nobah captured Kenath and its surrounding settlements and called it Nobah after himself.

Cross References 2

1. 1 Kings 4:13
2. Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:30; Judges 10:4; 1 Chronicles 2:23

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "them the settlements of Jair"