Numbers 32:41

41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair's Villages.^{[a] [b]}

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.

Numbers 32:41 In-Context

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

40 So Moses gave Gilead to [the clan of] Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled in it.

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

42 Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or renamed Havvoth-jair
• [b]. Dt 3:14; Jos 13:30; 1 Kg 4:13; 1 Ch 2:23