(See BASHAN HAVOTH-JAIR.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Havoth-ja'ir. (villages of Jair). Certain villages on the east of Jordan, in Gilead or Bashan, which were taken by Jair the son of Manasseh, and called after his name. Num_32:41; Deu_3:14. In the records of Manasseh in Jos_13:30 and 1Ch_2:23, the Havoth-jair are reckoned with other districts as making up sixty "cities." Compare 1Ki_4:13.
There is apparently some confusion in these different statements, as to what the sixty cities really consisted of. No less doubtful is the number of the Havoth-Jair. In 1Ch_2:22, they are specified as twenty-three, but in Jdg_10:4, as thirty.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863