Jair the sonne of Manasseh] He was a Manassite by his mothers side, who was a daughter of the Tribe of Manasseh; for sometimes the denomination was taken from the female sexe, 1 Chron. 2. 21, 22. & Ezra. 6. O the sonne of Manasseh may be one descended from him, in a remote degree, as the Israelites are called the children of Israel, many hundred yeares after Israel or Jacob was dead; and Christ is called the sonne of David, who was his progenitor a great way off, see Matthew 1:1. so that as every Ancestor in a direct line is called a father, so every one of the posteritie in a direct line is called a sonne.