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<p> Avims, Avites. </p> <p> '''1.''' Properly [[Avvim]] (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:28). They had dwelt in [[Hazerim]] ("the villages," or nomad encampments, chatzerim ), even unto [[Azzah]] (Gaza), i.e. S.W, of Palestine, the S. part of the shephelah or lower hills of Judah (possibly having come thither from the southern desert). The Caplitorim out of [[Caphtor]] (i.e. the Philistines, &nbsp;Amos 9:7) supplanted them; and the latter appear in the plain of Sharon, just N. of the shephelah . Compare the order of enumeration from S. to N. (&nbsp;Joshua 13:2-3.) [[Gesenius]] interprets the name Avvim, "ruin." A trace of them may be in Avvim, a city of [[Benjamin]] (&nbsp;Joshua 18:23), whither they may have been driven when the took refuge in the hills of Bethel. The [[Septuagint]] and [[Jerome]] identify them with the Hivites, in whose district was situated the Avvim city just mentioned. Compare &nbsp;Joshua 9:7; &nbsp;Joshua 9:17 with &nbsp;Joshua 18:22-27. </p> <p> '''2.''' The people of AVVA who were planted by [[Assyria]] in Samaria; their idols were [[Nibhaz]] and [[Tartak]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 17:81). </p>

<p> A´vim, called also Avites and Hivites, a people descended from [[Canaan]] (&nbsp;Genesis 10:17), who originally occupied the southernmost portion of that territory in [[Palestine]] along the [[Mediterranean]] coast, which the [[Caphtorim]] or [[Philistines]] afterwards possessed (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:23). As the territory of the [[Avim]] is mentioned in &nbsp;Joshua 13:3, in addition to the five [[Philistine]] states, it would appear that it was not included in theirs, and that the expulsion of the Avim was by a Philistine invasion prior to that by which the five principalities were founded. The territory began at Gaza, and extended southward to 'the river of Egypt' (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:23), forming what was the sole Philistine kingdom of [[Gerar]] in the time of Abraham, when we do not hear of any other Philistine states. There were then Avim, or Hivites, at [[Shechem]] (&nbsp;Genesis 34:2), and we afterwards find them also at [[Gibeon]] (&nbsp;Joshua 9:7), and beyond the Jordan, at the foot of Mount Hermon (&nbsp;Joshua 11:3); but we have no means of knowing whether these were original settlements of the Avim, or were formed out of the fragments of the nation which the Philistines expelled from southern Palestine. The original country of the Avim is called Hazerim in &nbsp;Deuteronomy 2:23 [GERAR; PHILISTINES]. </p>

<p> (Hebrews Avvim', with the article, הָעִוּים, ''The Ruins,'' or ''The Avvites''' tower; Sept. Αὐίμ v. r. Αὐείν ), a city in the tribe of Benjamin, mentioned between [[Bethel]] and [[Parah]] (&nbsp;Joshua 18:23). It may have been so named as having been settled by the Avites (q.v.) when expelled from Philistia, although it is uncertain whether they penetrated so far into the interior of the country (Keil, Comment. in loc.). The associated names afford a conjectural location eastward of Bethel, and it is possibly the same with AI (q v). (See [[Avite]]). </p>