Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Girgasite is the ancestral name of a Canaanite people descended from Canaan. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset preserves ethnonyms in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:16.1
AI summary: Girgasite matters because the cross references place the name within the Canaanite peoples who frame the land Israel will later enter. Like other ethnonym entries, it expands Genesis from family story into a structured account of the nations and peoples occupying the biblical world. Taken together, the material presents Girgasite as a Canaanite ethnonym contributing to Scripture's remembered ordering of neighboring peoples.1
Central Figure
Girgasite
Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen.
Dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan (Gen. 10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites (Gen. 15:21; Deut. 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. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.