Numbers 32:41Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

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.
Douay-Rheims

וְיָאִ֤יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁה֙ הָלַ֔ךְ וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד אֶת־חַוֺּתֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶתְהֶ֖ן חַוֺּ֥ת יָאִֽיר׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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One Church Father comments on this verse

Jerome of Stridon

4th centuryChurch Father

Avoth Iair, rendered in Greek as έπαύλεις ίαίρ, refers to Bashan, a region that contains sixty towns situated on Mount Gilead. This area was designated for the half tribe of Manasseh and is currently known as Golam, located in the land of Batanea.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Deut 3:14Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.
Judg 10:4Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.
Josh 13:30The beginning whereof is this: from Manaim all Basan, and all the kingdoms of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Basan, threescore towns.
1 Chr 2:21And afterwards Hesron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and took her to wife when he was threescore years old: and she bore him Segub.
1 Chr 2:23And he took Gessur, and Aram the towns of Jair, and Canath, and the villages thereof, threescore cities. All these, the sons of Machir father of Galaad.