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The Tribes East of the Jordan

Numbers 32:41

In 11 translations

BSB
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.Havvoth-jair means the villages of Jair.
KJV
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
WEB
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
ASV
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
LSV
And Jair son of Manasseh has gone and captures their towns, and calls them “Towns of Jair”;
YLT
And Jair son of Manasseh hath gone and captureth their towns, and calleth them 'Towns of Jair;'
DBY
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair.
DRC
And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.
GNV
And Iair the sonne of Manasseh went and tooke the small townes thereof, and called them Hauoth Iair.
JPS
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
LXXE
And Jair the son of Manasse went and took their villages, and called them the villages of Jair.Or, folds.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְיָאִ֤יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁה֙ הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־חַוֺּתֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶתְהֶ֖ן חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִֽיר׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ Ἰαῒρ ὁ τοῦ Μανασσῆ ἐπορεύθη, καὶ ἔλαβε τὰς ἐπαύλεις αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπωνόμασεν αὐτὰς ἐπαύλεις Ἰαΐρ.

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  • Deuteronomy 3:14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
  • Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
  • Joshua 13:30The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
  • 1 Kings 4:13Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
  • 1 Chronicles 2:21–23Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub. Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of…

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