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HebrewH2334Noun

חַוּוֹת יָעִיר

chau.vot ya.ir

4Occurrences
H2334Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

hamlets of Jair, a region of Palestine

from the plural of H2333 (חַוָּה) and a modification of H3265 (יָעוּר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Havoth-jair = "villages of Jair" certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair, the son of Manasseh, and called after his name; 60 or 23 or 30 cities in total

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

חַוּוֹת יָעִיר appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
1
Deuteronomy
1
Judges
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:23BSB

But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:14BSB

Jair, 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 10:4BSB

He 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.

Numbers 32:41BSB

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.