How to Pronounce Girgashite
GER-guh-shite
Girgashite is pronounced GER-guh-shite (ˈgəgəʃaɪt): three syllables, stress on the first.
What does Girgashite mean?
Girgashite means “who arrives from pilgrimage”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
What is Girgashite?
Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen. 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Gen. 15:21; Deut. 7:1). They were a branch of the great family of the Hivites. Of their geographical position nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived somewhere in the central part of Western Palestine.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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