Girgashiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• Girgasite

語源

From Ecclesiastical Latin Gergeseum, from Ancient Greek Γεργεσαῖον (Gergesaîon), from Biblical Hebrew גִּרְגָּשִׁי (girgāšî).

Further etymology is unknown.

名詞

Girgashite (plural Girgashites)

1. (biblical) A member of a certain group of descendants of Canaan who inhabited the land of Canaan.
2. (biblical) A "son" of Canaan.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 10:15-18:
     :

     And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

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