Numbers 32:41

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

Numbers 32:41 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
English Standard Version (ESV)
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
New Living Translation (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.
The Message Bible (MSG)
41 Jair, another son of Manasseh, captured some villages and named them Havvoth Jair (Jair's Tent-Camps).
American Standard Version (ASV)
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
41 Then Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, captured the settlements in Gilead. He called them Havvoth Jair [Settlements of Jair].
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair's Villages.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
41 Jair was a man in the family line of Manasseh. Jair captured Gilead's settlements. He called 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 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"
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