עַוִּי
ʻAvvîy · H5757 · Hebrew · proper noun · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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an Avvite
A member of an ethnic group living in the southern coastal region, destroyed and supplanted by the Philistines
ExamplesDeuteronomy 2:23 “And as for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor which is east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five governors of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite
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Avvites
Inhabitants of Avva, town in Assyria
Examples2 Kings 17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Names of Locations003001010
- עַוִּי (Avvim/Avvite) names a people associated with a specific territory in Canaan (Deuteronomy 2:23, Joshua 13:3), so the term doubles as a place-linked designation.
- Names of Groups003001006
- As a gentilic, עַוִּי designates the group of people known as the Avvites, the pre-Philistine inhabitants of a coastal region (Deuteronomy 2:23).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5757. Avvi [עַוִּי] adjective, of a people only plural הַעַוִּים as substantive,…
[עַוִּי] adjective, of a people only plural הַעַוִּים as substantive, inhabitants of II. עַוָּה 2Ki 17:31 (another עַוִּים below).
עוֺז
noun see עֹז below עזז.
עַוִּים proper name 1. of a people ׳הָע people on southwest coast of Mediterranean before the כַּפְתֹּרִים (q. v.) came Deu 2:23, and remaining thereafter Jos 13:3 (D2), ᵐ5 Ευαιοι.
2. location ׳הָע city in Benjamin Jos 18:23 (= הָעַי ?), ᵐ5 Αιειν, Αυειμ. — See also [עַוִּי] above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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