hamlets of the enlightener a district in the east of Jordan.

Jair, the son of Manasseh, took some villages of Gilead and called them by this name ( Numbers 32:41 ).

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 1 Chronicles 2:23 .)

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.