Hivites ('villagers' or 'midlanders'), a Canaanitish people, the main body of which lived in the region from Lebanon and Hermon to Hamath, but who had colonies, apparently isolated, in southern Palestine, as at Gibeon.
Hivites
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 725
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