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Numbers 32:41

JairManassehEast Manasseh (Half-Tribe)Havvoth-jair

39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

40 So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.

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

42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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BSB
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-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.
DARBY
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took their hamlets, and called them Havoth-Jair.
BLB
And Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their tent villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
ÅB
Og Ja'ir, Manasses sønn, dro avsted og inntok deres[^2] landsbyer; og han kalte dem Ja'irs byer.
OTB
Jair, en etterkommer av Manasse, erobret deres bosetninger og kalte dem Havvot-Jair.
B1930
Og Ja'ir, Manasses sønn, drog avsted og inntok deres landsbyer; og han kalte dem Ja'irs byer. / < amorittenes.>

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  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    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.

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  • Judges 10:4

    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.

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  • Joshua 13:30

    The 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;

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  • 1 Kings 4:13

    Ben-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);

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  • 1 Chronicles 2:21–23

    Later, 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.

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