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Girgashite
Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Gen 15:21; Deut 7:1). They were a branch of the great family of the Hivites. Of their geographical position nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived somewhere in the central part of Western Palestine.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 1 Chronicles 1:14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
