Study it in the app“He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities; them they call Havvoth-jair to this day; they are in the land of Gilead.”
He hadוַיְהִי לוֹthirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםsonsבָּנִיםwho rodeרֹכְבִיםonעַלthirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםdonkeys,עֲיָרִיםand they hadוּ לָהֶםthirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםcities;עֲיָרִיםthemלָהֶםthey callיִקְרְאוּHavvoth-jairחַוֺּת יָאִירtoעַדthisהַזֶּהday;הַיּוֹםthey areאֲשֶׁרin the landבְּאֶרֶץof Gilead.הַגִּלְעָד
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “yehi” appearsthirty
Thirty; also "thirtieth".
Where else “sheloshim” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “banim” appearsride
To ride an animal or a chariot.
Where else “rochvim” appearsyoung donkey
Young donkey, colt.
Where else “ayarim” appearsname
To give someone a name.
Where else “yikru” appearsHavvoth-jair
Havvoth-jair, a group of villages east of the Jordan. The name means "villages of Jair."
Where else “chavot” appearstoday
This very day in which one speaks, the present moment.
Where else “yom” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsGilead
See it on the mapWhere else “gilad” appears“Havvoth-jair” means “the villages of Jair.” In Hebrew, “donkeys” and “cities” are written the same way here: it is a play on words.
Gilead
Today: northern Jordan, east of the Jordan River
A hill region east of the Jordan River, in present-day Jordan.
Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh settled there (Num 32:1, 33). Jephthah was from Gilead (Judg 11:1). Jeremiah spoke of its balm (Jer 8:22).
3After him arose Jair the Gileadite, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
4 · This verse (above)
5Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
