group · also Hivite
Hivites
חִוִּי
The Hivites were one of the Canaanite tribes inhabiting the land promised to the Israelites.
- verses
- 25
- first named
- Genesis 10:17
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 8:7
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Hivites in the text
The Hivites were one of the Canaanite people groups that inhabited the land of Canaan prior to the Israelite conquest. They are first mentioned in Gen.10.17 and 1Ch.1.15 as descendants of Canaan, the son of Ham.
The Hivites lived in various parts of Canaan, including the region around Shechem (Gen.34.2), the area near Mount Hermon (Jos.11.3), and the cities of Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim (Jos.9.7, 17). They were among the tribes that God promised to drive out before the Israelites (Exo.3.8, 17; 13.5; 23.23, 28; 33.2; 34.11; Deu.7.1; 20.17; Jos.3.10).
During the Israelite conquest of Canaan, the Hivites of Gibeon tricked Joshua into making a peace treaty with them.
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.
Associated with
Descends from
Located in
Sibling of
- Amoritesregistry, no verse
- Arkitesregistry, no verse
- Arvaditesregistry, no verse
- Girgashitesregistry, no verse
- Hamathitesregistry, no verse
- Hethregistry, no verse
- Jebusitesregistry, no verse
- Sidonregistry, no verse
- Sinitesregistry, no verse
- Zemaritesregistry, no verse
Stands in the same events as
- Heth15 events
- Amorites14 events
- Jebusites14 events
- Perizzites14 events
- Canaan13 events
- Girgashites6 events
- Israel5 events
- LORD2 events
- Daughter2 events
- Moses1 event
- Joshua1 event
- Nations1 event
and 8 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this group reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Hivites 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.
25 verses across 9 of 66 books; 57 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (3), Exodus (7), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (7), Judges (2), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1) and 2 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 25, across 9 books.
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.
Sources