עַוִּי
avi · Avvites
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5757 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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avi (עַוִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Avvites”.
An ancient people of the southern coast, near Gaza (Deuteronomy 2:23).
How to say it
a·vi
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An ancient people of the southern coast, beside the Philistines.
- People from Avva whom Assyria settled in Samaria.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and as far as the border of Ekron to the north, it is counted as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and the Avvites
- 2 Kings 17:31
and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites were burning their sons in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.