(dwelling on a clayey soil), The, one of the nations who were in possession of Canaan east of the Sea of Galilee before the entrance thither of the children of Israel. (Genesis 10:16; 15:21; 7:1)
GIRGASHITES(Γεργεσαῖοι), one of the seven idolatrous nations descended from Canaan ( Gen. 10.16), an...
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