Ja-azer or Jazer
(Jehovah helps), a town on the east of Jordan, in or near to Gilead. Nu 32:1,3; 1Ch 26:31 We first hear of it in possession of the Amorites, and as taken by Israel after Heshbon, and on their way from thence to Bashan. Nu 21:32 It seems to have given its name to a district of dependent or "daughter" towns, Nu 21:32 Authorized Version "villages," 1 Macc. 5:8, the "land of Jazer." Nu 32:1
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