A name often used as a synonym for Bashan and part of the inheritance of the tribe of Manasseh.
Literally, "the village of Jair," but should probably be treated as a proper noun and not be translated. Deut 3:14 provides an account of the origin of the place;
The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites. Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.
The account is important because the preceeding chapter had spoken several times of how different lands had been conquered by the different peoples and renamed by them to signify their possession of them. For the first time, however, Israel has conquered a land and now engages in name-change; the name "Jair's village" may be humble but the land is now Israel's. God has kept his promise.
The name should not be conceived of as a single hamlet; it is always treated as a region; so Deut 3:14 speaks, e.g., of it as encompassing the entire Bashan. Judg 10:4 speaks of "thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair."
Havvoth-Jair is mentioned elsewhere only in Num 32:41 & 1 Chron 2:23.
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