Hivite

[hahy-vahyt]

noun

1. a member of an ancient people inhabiting Canaan, conquered by the Israelites.

Example Sentences

Esau married a daughter of Ishmael, also two other women, called daughters of Canaan, one a Hittite and the other a Hivite.

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I will send hornets before thee which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

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Well, let them read the twenty-eighth verse of the twenty-third chapter of Exodus, "And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite from before thee."

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And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land: and when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and defiled her.

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Tiny, who had been stepping out and playing forward with the irritating accuracy of an automaton, played just inside a ball from the Hivite fast bowler, Martin.

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