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
3 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
Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel
on Judges 10:3-5
What is recorded of Jair is a family: "thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys" and held thirty towns. Numbers 32:41 gives the name Havvoth-jair to an earlier Jair of Manasseh. Barnes takes the two men for one, and Henry reads an old family name revived by the conquest.
This site's exposition
he was buried in Kamon
John Gill follows Josephus in placing Kamon in Gilead, and sets aside Jerome's village of Cimana in the plain toward Ptolemais, as Reland advised. He prefers the Kamon that Polybius names among the cities of Peraea taken by Antiochus. Jair is buried near his own towns.
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.
Where this verse is studied
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About Judges
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.