H5761G
עַוִּים
Avvim
People who lived in modern Gaza, first mentioned at Deu.2.23 § Avim = "ruins" 1) a people among the early inhabitants of Palestine located in the southwest corner of the seacoast 2) a city in Benjamin
Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry
[עַוִּי] adjective, of a people only plural הַעַוִּים as substantive, inhabitants of II. עַוָּה 2Kgs 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 Deut 2:23, and remaining thereafter Josh 13:3 (D2), ᵐ5 Ευαιοι.
2. location ׳הָע city in Benjamin Josh 18:23 (= הָעַי ?), ᵐ5 Αιειν, Αυειμ. — See also [עַוִּי] above
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