Girgashi גִּרְגָּשִׁי

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Girgashi
גִּרְגָּשִׁי
Transliterationgirgashi
Strong's numberH1622
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a person or people
GlossGirgashite
Occurrences7 in 7 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (2)

Girgashi (Hebrew גִּרְגָּשִׁי, Strong's H1622) is a name of a person or people in the Old Testament, glossed “Girgashite”. It occurs 7 times.

Definition

Someone descended from Girgas(?) of the Canaanites, first mentioned at Gen.10.16; 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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVgirgashites (5), girgasite (1), girgashite (1)
BSBgirgashites (7)

Verses

Every verse with Girgashi, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Deuteronomy

Joshua

1 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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