Havvoth-Jair
Havvoth-Jair
HAVVOTH-JAIR.The precise meaning of Havvoth is uncertain, but it is taken usually to mean tent-villages. In Num 32:41 these villages are assigned to Gilead, but in Deu 3:14 and Jos 13:30 to Bashan. The difficulty is caused by the attempt of the editors in the last two passages to harmonize the reference in Numbers with the tradition about the sixty fortresses of 1Ki 4:18. There is no doubt that the Jair of Numbers and the Jair of Judges are identical.
W. F. Cobb.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Havvoth-Jair
hav-oth-jar ( , hawwoth ya’r the encampments or tent villages of Jair; the King James Version Havoth-Jair, ha-voth-jair): The word hawwoth occurs only in this combination (Num 32:41; Deu 3:14; Jdg 10:4), and is a legacy from the nomadic stage of Hebrew life. Jair had thirty sons who possessed thirty cities, and these are identified with Havvoth-jair in Jdg 10:3. The district was in Gilead (Jdg 10:5; Num 32:41). In Deu 3:13 f, it is identified with Bashan and Argob; but in 1Ki 4:13, the towns of Jair are said to be in Gilead; while to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars. There is evident confusion here. If we follow Jdg 10:3, we may find a useful clue in Jdg 10:5. Kamon is named as the burial place of Jair. This probably corresponds to Kamun taken by Antiochus III, on his march from Pella to Gephrun (Polyb. v.70, 12). Schumacher (Northern Ajlun, 137) found two places to the West of Irbid with the names Kamm and Kumeim (the latter a diminutive of the former) with ancient ruins. Kamm probably represents the Hebrew Kamon, so that Havvoth-jair should most likely be sought in this district, i.e. in North Gilead, between the Jordan Valley and Jebel ez-Zumleh.