Havoth-Jair

HAVOTH-JAIR. The Hebrew Havoth or Avoth signifies properly Cabbins, or Houses belonging to the Arabians, which are put together in a circle, and this collection of them produces an hamlet or village. And this is the signification of Havoth still at this day in Arabic. These villages of Jair were so called, because Jair Numb. xxxii. 41. חות יאיר Josh. xiii. 31, 32. Luke iii. 1. Joseph. Antiq. l. 17. c. 7. Hieron. ad Ezek. xlvii. 16. Apud Reland.the son of Manasseh conquered and possessed them. They were in the Batanæa, beyond Jordan, in the land of Gilead¹, and belonged to the Half-Tribe of Manasseh.

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