One of the ancient peoples mentioned in the Bible as inhabitants of Canaan before the Israelite conquest.
From Hebrew Girgashi, an ancient ethnic group. The term appears in biblical texts as one of the seven Canaanite nations, though their exact identity and location are debated by historians.
The Girgashites were so obscure that even ancient historians couldn't agree on where they lived, but biblical writers consistently listed them as a distinct people—a linguistic memory of populations who left almost no archaeological trace.
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