Numbers 32:41

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

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 dispossessed the Amorites who were there;

40 so Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled there.

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

42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and renamed it Nobah after himself.

Footnotes

• [a]. That is [the villages of Jair]