Hivite
Sign in to saveThe Hivites () were one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis 10:17. A variety of proposals have been made, but beyond the references in the Hebrew Bible to Hivites in Canaan, no consensus has been reached about their precise historical identity.
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The Hivites () were one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Generations of Noah in the Book of Genesis 10:17. A variety of proposals have been made, but beyond the references in the Hebrew Bible to Hivites in Canaan, no consensus has been reached about their precise historical identity.
==Etymology== E. C. Hostetter has proposed that the name comes from "tent-dweller," as a cognate to the Hebrew word hawwah (), which means tent-camp, although this proposal is rejected by John Day.