Hivite

American  

[hahy-vahyt] / ˈhaɪ vaɪt /

noun

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

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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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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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A week later Pip was informed by Mumford, during the French hour, of a curious clerical error in the list containing the names of the Hivite House Eleven, which had been put up that morning.

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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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When Shechem, the Hivite, wished to marry Dinah, daughter of Jacob, he consulted not only her father, but her brothers as well; and the brothers of the heroine of the Song of Songs are represented as saying: "What shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?"

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