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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51327" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51327" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> GIRGASHITES </strong> (in Heb. always sing. ‘the Girgashite,’ and rightly so rendered in RV [Note: Revised Version.] ). Very little is known of this people, whose name, though occurring several times in OT in the list of Can. tribes ( [[Genesis]] 10:16; Genesis 15:21 , Deuteronomy 7:1 [and Deuteronomy 20:17 in Sam. and LXX [Note: Septuagint.] ], Joshua 3:10; Jos 24:11 , 1 Chronicles 1:14 , Nehemiah 9:8 ), affords no indication of their position, or to what branch of the [[Canaanites]] they belonged, except in two instances, namely, Genesis 10:16 , where the ‘Girgashite’ is given as the name of the fifth son of Canaan; and Joshua 24:11 , where the [[Girgashites]] would seem to have inhabited the tract on the west of Jordan, the [[Israelites]] having been obliged to cross over that river in order to fight the men of Jericho, among whom were the Girgashites. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35496" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35496" /> == |