“And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.”
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair — Jair, a Manassite clan leader, undertakes a subsidiary military campaign, capturing the small towns (unwalled settlements) of Gilead. He names the territory "Havoth-jair" ("villages of Jair"), establishing his own regional identity within the Manassite inheritance.
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