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  • Hamor the Hivite was the "prince of the land" (Gen. 24: 2-28).

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Although called a Hivite, he is probably the same as Zibeon the son of Seir the Horite.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • This same Anah appears here as a "Hivite" but in Ge 26: 34 as a "Hittite."

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • (vv. 20, 24, 25) proves that "Hivite" is a corrupt reading for "Horite," while it is probable that in the second passage "Hittite" ought to be read for "Hivite."

    Patriarchal Palestine 1889

  • Its Hivite inhabitants call it Reah, and themselves Reahns.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

  • Remember this day when you went out from Egypt […] And it shall be when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jubusite which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe this rite in this month.

    THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN KILLING MACHINE 2009

  • The prohibition in the Torah is against marriage with the “the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,” or variations dropping one or the other of these nations Devarim/Deuteronomy 7:1–6.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Black-Jewish Marriage: 2009

  • Jacob responded that it was against their law to permit the marriageof his daughteror anyone to a Hivite becauseHivites were not circumcised.

    Is that Jerry Falwell Calling for the Carpet Bombing Of Gaza? 2007

  • Dinah caught the eye of Shechem, the son of a Hivite named Hamor.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

  • Dinah caught the eye of Shechem, the son of a Hivite named Hamor.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

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