Girgashite: Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan
(Genesis 10:16) one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan
before the time of the Israelites
(Genesis 15:21; Deuteronomy 7:1) They were a branch
of the great family of the Hivites. Of their geographical position
nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived somewhere in the
central part of Western Palestine.
