Havoth-jair: hamlets of the enlightener a district in the east of Jordan.

1. Jair, the son of Manasseh, took some villages of Gilead and called them by this name (Numbers 32:41).
2. Again, it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob," and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (Deuteronomy 3:14). (See also Joshua 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:22,23.)