חִוִּיChivvîy

villagers

Pronunciation: khiv-vee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2340

Meanings

1. compare ׳ צִבְעוֺן הַח, but read rather הַחֹרִי (Genesis 34:2; Genesis 36:2; Joshua 9:7)

2. the Hivvites, with article as proper name collective (Genesis 10:17; 1 Chronicles 1:15; Exodus 3:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 25 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 10:17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
  • Genesis 34:2 But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her.
  • Genesis 36:2 Esau married two young women from Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite.
  • Exodus 3:8 So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
  • Exodus 3:17 I have promised to rescue you from your oppression in Egypt. I will lead you to a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.”’
  • Exodus 13:5 You must celebrate this event in this month each year after the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. (He swore to your ancestors that he would give you this land—a land flowing with milk and honey.)
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).