Judges 10:5
in Judges 10When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
KJV
And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
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This verse in Judges 10
Commentary
2 notes on this verseAnd Jair died, and was buried in Camon. A city of Gilead, as Josephus (u) calls it; Jerom (w), under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland (x) observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius (y) speaks of among other cities of Peraea, taken by Antiochus. (u) Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 6. (w) De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B. (x) Palestina Illustr. tom.
This site's exposition
And after him arose Jair
on Judges 10:3-5
Jair holds the office twenty-two years and what is recorded of him is a family rather than a war. Thirty sons on thirty ass colts holding thirty cities is a count of rank, since the colt is what the rulers ride at 5:10, and Judges 12:9 and 12:14 repeat the shape with Ibzan's thirty sons and Abdon's seventy riders. The villages are called Havoth Jair unto this day, and Numbers 32:41 and Deuteronomy 3:14 give that name to an earlier Jair of Manasseh who took the towns in Moses' time. Barnes takes the two men for one, and Henry reads this Jair as carrying an old family name that the conquest of these towns revived.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Thoroughbreds. עוּלִין, 1 This is Targum Yonasan’s translation. the choicest horses.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣מָת | vaiyamot | and he died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| יָאִ֔יר | yair | Jair | H2971 → | |
| וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר | vaiyikaver | and he was buried | H6912 → | 133 times |
| בְּקָמֽוֹן׃ פ | bekamon | in Kamon | H7056 → |
וַיָּ֣מָתand he died
vaiyamotH4191 →839 times
יָאִ֔ירJair
yairH2971 →
וַיִּקָּבֵ֖רand he was buried
vaiyikaverH6912 →133 times
בְּקָמֽוֹן׃ פin Kamon
bekamonH7056 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Judges
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).