King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2340
Transliteration: Chivvi
Phonetic Spelling: (khiv-vee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably "villagers", a Canaanite tribe
Meaning: Hivite -- a Chivvite
Word Summary
Chivvi: probably "villagers", a Canaanite tribe
Original Word: חִוִּיTransliteration: Chivvi
Phonetic Spelling: (khiv-vee')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: probably "villagers", a Canaanite tribe
Meaning: Hivite -- a Chivvite
Strong's Concordance
Hivite Perhaps from chavvah; a villager; a Chivvite, one of the aboriginal tribes of Palestine -- Hivite.
see HEBREW chavvah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2340. Chivvi
חִוִּי adjective, of a people ( = villagers ?) —
1 הַח ׳בֶּןחֲֿמוֺר שְׁכֶם Genesis 34:2 (P), compare הַח ׳צִבְעוֺן 36:2 (but read rather הַחֹרִי Ol Di compare ᵐ5 Joshua 9:7).
2 with article as proper name collective הַחִוִּי the Hivvites 'begotten' by Canaan Genesis 10:17 = 1 Chronicles 1:15; especially in list of Canaanite peoples displaced by Hebrews Exodus 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deuteronomy 7:1; 20:17; Joshua 3:10; 9:1; 12:8; 24:11 (all J E D), Judges 3:5; 1 Kings 9:20 2 Chronicles 8:7; compare הַח ׳עָרֵי וְהַכְּנַעֲנִי 2 Samuel 24:7 (note צִידוֺן מִבְצַרצֹֿר, just preceding); applied specifically to Gibeonites Joshua 9:7 (JE), 11:19 (D). — In 11:3; Judges 3:3 read probably הַחִתִּי for הַחִוִּי We Mey BuUrg 350 see (partly) ᵐ5, Dr on Deuteronomy 7:1.