Girgashite @ dwelling in clayey soil, the descendants of the fifth son of Canaan Genesis:10:16), one of the original tribes inhabiting the land of Canaan before the time of the Israelites Genesis:15:21; Deuteronomy:7:1). They were a branch of the great family of the Hivites. Of their geographical position nothing is certainly known. Probably they lived somewhere in the central part of Western Palestine.
