GIRGASHITES(Γεργεσαῖοι), one of the seven idolatrous nations descended from Canaan ( Gen. 10.16), and dispossessed by the children of Israel ( Josh. 24.11). They do not occur in the lists in Exodus, 3.8, 17, or Deuteronomy, 20.17; nor is there any indication of their position in Palaestine. Dr. Wells supposes them to have been a family of the tribe of the Hivites; as in nine out of ten places where the nations of Canaan are reckoned they are omitted, while in the tenth, where they are inserted, the Hivites are omitted.
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