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 (Num. 32:41).
2) Again, it is said that Jair "took all the tract of Argob," and called it Bashanhavoth-jair (Deut. 3:14). (See also Josh. 13:30; 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chr. 2:22, 23.)
Easton's Bible Dictionary. M.G. Easton. 1897.