girgashi · Girgashite

What it means

girgashi (גִּרְגָּשִׁי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Girgashite”.

One of the peoples of Canaan.

How to say it

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

1. One of the peoples of Canaan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Girgashite ×6
• Girgashites ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1

• Genesis 10:16

  and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• Genesis 15:21

  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

• Joshua 3:10

  And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that a living El is among you, and that he will certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

• Joshua 24:11

  And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.

• 1 Chronicles 1:14

  and the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

• Nehemiah 9:8

  and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring; and you have fulfilled your words, for righteous are you.