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HebrewH1622Noun

גִּרְגָּשִׁי

gir.ga.shi

7Occurrences
H1622Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan

patrial from an unused name (of uncertain derivation);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Girgas(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at ; descended from Canaan (H3667); along with Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577); also called in KJV: Girgasite; § Girgashite or Girgasite = "dwelling on a clayey soil" descendants of Canaan and one of the nations living east of the sea of Galilee when the Israelites entered the promised land

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

גִּרְגָּשִׁי appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
2
Joshua
2
1 Chronicles
1
Deuteronomy
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:14BSB

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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—

Genesis 10:16BSB

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 15:21BSB

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Joshua 24:11BSB

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

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