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# חִוִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2340

**Hivite** — used 25 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hivite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2340/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִוִּי: adj. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2340/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. (= villagers?)— שְׁכֶם בֶּן־חֲמוֹר הַח׳ Gn 34:2 (P), cf. צִבְעוֹן הַח׳ 36:2 (but read rather הַחֹרִי Ol Di cf. 𝔊 Jos 9:7). c. art. as n.pr.coll. הַחִוִּי the Hivvites ‘begotten’ by Canaan Gn 10:17 = 1 Ch 1:15; especially in list of Canaanit. peoples displaced by Hebrews Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11 Dt 7:1; 20:17 Jos 3:10; 9:1; 12:8; 24:11 (all JED), Ju 3:5 1 K 9:20 = 2 Ch 8:7; cf. עָרֵי הַח׳ וְהַכְּנַעֲנִי 2 S 24:7 (note מִבְצַר־צֹר, צִידוֹן, just preceding); applied specif. to Gibeonites Jos 9:7 (JE), 11:19 (D).—In Jos 11:3 Ju 3:3 read prob. הַחִתִּי for הַחִוִּי We Mey BuUrg. 350 v. (partly) 𝔊, Dr on Dt 7:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hivite\[s\] (22); Hivite (2); the Hivite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.17/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַֽחִוִּ֥י וְאֶת־הַֽעַרְקִ֖י וְאֶת־הַסִּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Hivite\[s\] and (et) the Arkite\[s\] and (et) the Sinite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

[1 Chronicles 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.15/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַחִוִּ֥י וְאֶת־הַֽעַרְקִ֖י וְאֶת־הַסִּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Hivite\[s\] and (et) the Arkite\[s\] and (et) the Sinite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2340.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2340/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).