Strong's Hebrew · H1622

גִּרְגָּשִׁי

Girgâshîy · ghir-gaw-shee'

Girgashite, Girgasite.

Definition

a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan

Derivation

patrial from an unused name (of uncertain derivation);

Appears 7 times in Scripture

Joshua 3:10

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Joshua 24:11

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

Genesis 10:16

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 15:21

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Nehemiah 9:8

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

1 Chronicles 1:14

the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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