group · also Girgashite
Girgashites
גִּרְגָּשִׁי
The Girgashites were one of the Canaanite groups inhabiting the land promised to Abraham's descendants.
- verses
- 7
- first named
- Genesis 10:16
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:14
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Girgashites in the text
The Girgashites were a Canaanite people group mentioned several times in the Old Testament. They are first listed in Gen.10.16 and 1Ch.1.14 as descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham. In God's covenant with Abraham, the Girgashites are named as one of the groups inhabiting the land that would be given to Abraham's descendants (Gen.15.21). When the Israelites entered the Promised Land, the Girgashites were among the peoples they were instructed to dispossess (Deu.7.1; Jos.3.10). The Girgashites are mentioned again in Jos.24.11 and Neh.9.8, recounting God's faithfulness in giving the land to Israel as promised. The Bible does not provide any details about their culture, religion, or exact location within Canaan.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
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The pattern
Where Girgashites is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
7 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (2), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (2), 1 Chronicles (1) and Nehemiah (1).
9 further references are not verses of this edition — LXX.Exo.3.8, LXX.Exo.3.17, LXX.Exo.13.5, LXX.Exo.23.23, LXX.Exo.33.2, LXX.Exo.34.11. A Septuagint address, a bracketed reading, or a compound string the source never resolves. Counted here rather than folded into the figure.
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 5 books.
Genesis2 verses
Deuteronomy1 verse
Joshua2 verses
1 Chronicles1 verse
Nehemiah1 verse
9 further references are to addresses this build does not carry — Septuagint verses, or compound strings the source never resolves. Attested where Atlas does not read is not attested nowhere.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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