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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Girgashite


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The Girgashites are descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah.

The name Girgashite has most likely to do with the verb garar garar (386), drag, drag away. Derivative gargar (gargar 386c) means berry. The added shin draws attention to the verb gashash (gashash 391), which occurs once, in Isiah 59:10, where it means stroke, feel with the hand.

What the name of the Girgashites was supposed to mean (and in what language) is hard to establish, but to a Hebrew audience this name may have sounded like Take And Stroke. What that has to do with anything is even harder to establish, but perhaps it made people think of a thief who fondles his loot or an abductor who cherishes his abductee.



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