Girgâshîy — H1622

Definition

adjective

a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan

1. Girgashite or Girgasite = "dwelling on a clayey soil"
2. descendants of Canaan and one of the nations living east of the sea of Galilee when the Israelites entered the promised land

Usually translated as

Girgashite, Girgasite

Origin

patrial from an unused name (of uncertain derivation)

Greek equivalents

• Gergesēnós (G1086)

Occurrences

Girgâshîy occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (2), 1 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1)

• Genesis 10:16 — And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite (הַגִּרְגָּשִֽׁי),
• Genesis 15:21 — And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites (הַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖י), and the Jebusites.
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites (וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֨י), and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites (הַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֔י), and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
• Joshua 24:11 — And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites (וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֔י), the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
• 1 Chronicles 1:14 — The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite (הַגִּרְגָּשִֽׁי),
• Nehemiah 9:8 — And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites (וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖י), to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: