STRONGS NUMBER H1622


Word Summary
Girgashi: a native tribe of Canaan
Original Word: גִּרְגָּשִׁי
Transliteration: Girgashi
Phonetic Spelling: (ghir-gaw-shee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a native tribe of Canaan
Meaning: Girgashite -- a native tribe of Canaan
Strong's Concordance
Girgashite, Girgasite

Patrial from an unused name (of uncertain derivation); a Girgashite, one of the native tribes of Canaan -- Girgashite, Girgasite.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1622. Girgashi

גִּרְגָּשִׁיadjective, of a people only ׳הַגּ‎ as proper name collective; 'begotten' by Canaan Genesis 10:16 = 1 Chronicles 1:14; in list of Canaanitish peoples displaced by Israel; territory unknown; Genesis 15:21; Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 3:10; 24:11; Nehemiah 9:8; compare Genesis 10:16; 1 Chronicles 1:14 above (Hexateuch only J E D).