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Girgashite
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English
Alternative forms
en Girgasite
Etymology
From en la-ecc Gergeseum,"Genesis (Genesis) 10 (VUL) - et Iebuseum et Amorreum Gergeseum." Blue Letter Bible. Web. 1 Aug, 2025. <https://www.blueletterbible.org/vul/gen/10/16/t_concif_10016>. from en grc Γεργεσαῖον,"Γένεσις (Genesis) 10 (LXX) - καὶ τὸν Ιεβουσαῖον καὶ τὸν." Blue Letter Bible. Web. 1 Aug, 2025. <https://www.blueletterbible.org/lxx/gen/10/16/t_conc_10016>. from en hbo גִּרְגָּשִׁי girgāšî."H1622 - girgāšî - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (lxx)." Blue Letter Bible. Web. 1 Aug, 2025. <https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1622/lxx/wlc/0-1/>.
Further etymology is unknown.
Noun
en biblical A member of a certain group of descendants of Canaan who inhabited the land of Canaan.
en Q204797en biblical character A "son" of Canaan.
Genesis 10 15-18:
And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Translations
member of the tribe
Cherokee: chr ᎠᎦᎦᏏ
Ndonga: ng Omugirgashi 1
Tumbuka: tum muGirigashi 1
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