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HebrewH2340Noun

חִוִּי

chiv.vi

25Occurrences
H2340Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Chivvite, one of the aboriginal tribes of Palestine

perhaps from H2333 (חַוָּה); a villager;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Hiv(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at ; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § Hivite = "villagers" 6th generation of descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham, who were living in northern Canaan near Mount Hermon at the time of the conquest

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

חִוִּי appears 25 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
7
Joshua
7
Genesis
3
Deuteronomy
2
Judges
2
1 Chronicles
1
1 Kings
1
2 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:15BSB

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

Deuteronomy 7:1BSB

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Exodus 3:17BSB

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Genesis 36:2BSB

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Joshua 12:8BSB

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.