girgashite

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girgashite - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Girgashite
  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.