חִוִּי
Hivite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Hivite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2340 appears in the Book of Exodus — 7 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 3:8 וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֖י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 3:17 וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֖י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
- Exodus 13:5 וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֣י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 23:23 הַ/חִוִּ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
- Exodus 23:28 הַ/חִוִּ֧י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- Exodus 33:2 הַ/חִוִּ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Exodus 34:11 וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֖י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חוי — transliterated Chivvîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Hivite.” Debuting at Genesis 10:17, it then recurs through the corpus. With 25 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Exodus (28% of all occurrences). See 25-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2340 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 25
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 25 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 25 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 25 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 48%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 11 verses · 44%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hivites 15×, Hivite 9×
- American Standard Version: Hivite 17×, Hivites 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hivites 23×, Hivite 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hivite 13×, Hivites 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2340 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2340 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2340 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2340 across 26 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Hivite = "villagers"
- 6th generation of descendants of Canaan…
Word origin
Derived from חוה (chavvâh) (H2333) — village.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חוי
- , Pi. חִיוָּה (b. h.)
- 1. to point. Meg. 16ᵃ היתה מְחַוָּוה וכ׳ she was pointing at Ahasver.
- 2. to show, teach, tell. Gen. R. s. 20 (play on חַוָּה) ח׳ לה אדם וכ׳ Adam told her &c.
חוי ²
- Pa. חַוֵּי same, to show;to tell. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXIV, 1. Targ. Jud. IV, 12; a. fr.—Y. Kil. VII, 31ᵃ top ח׳ סלעא וכ׳ (not סלעיה) showed a Sela to R. E. (for examination).
- same. Targ. Y. Deut. l. c.; a. e.—B. Kam. 100ᵃ א׳ ליה דינרא וכ׳ showed a Denar to R. E. (v. supra). Ib. 116ᵇ דאחוי אַחְיָיֵי (not אחוי) he pointed the field out (to the officials for confiscation). Ib. ואמרי ליה אַחְוִי ארעתיה (not אחויי, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 70) and the officials said to him show (us) his field. Snh. 107ᵇ Mss. a. old eds. (omitted in later ed.) א׳ ליה בידיה he made a sign to him with his hand; a. fr.—Y. Yeb. XII, 12ᶜ top … ר׳ מַחֲוֵי וכ׳ R. Z. told R. Ba that &c. [Targ. II Esth. II, 21 מחוי חיויא, read with ed. Lag. ויִמְחֵיה, v. מְחָא II.]
- to be announced; to be told. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 42. Targ. Ps. LXXXVIII, 12 (not די תחוי).
חִוֵּי
- , v. חִיוְיָא
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H2340 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/חִוִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 20:17 | 7 |
| וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 3:8 | 4 |
| הַֽ/חִוִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 34:2 | 2 |
| וְ/הַ/חִוִּ֣י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 13:5 | 2 |
| וְ/הַֽ/חִוִּי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 7:1 | 2 |
| הַ/חִוִּ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 9:7 | 1 |
| הַ/חִוִּ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 3:10 | 1 |
| הַ/חִוִּ֣י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 9:20 | 1 |
| הַ/חִוִּ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 1:15 | 1 |
| הַ/חִוִּ֧י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 23:28 | 1 |
| הַֽ/חִוִּ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 10:17 | 1 |
| הַֽ/חִוִּֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 36:2 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ֣/חִוִּ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 3:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2340, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 24 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 25 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 10:17
- Exodus 3:8
- Deuteronomy 7:1
- Joshua 3:10
- Judges 3:3
- 2 Samuel 24:7
- 1 Chronicles 1:15
- 2 Chronicles 8:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
