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title: חִוִּי — Hivite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חִוִּי (2340), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: Hivite. BDB 1906: adj. gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חִוִּי

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«חִוִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hivite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 2340 · **BDB:** חִוִּי

### Glosses

Hivite\[s\] (22); Hivite (2); the.Hivite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חִוִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2340/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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;

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