The Definition of the word Girgashite

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.