Deut. xi. 23. Josh. xiii. 4. Josh. xi. 19. Josh. xi. 3. Genes. xxxiv. 29AVIMS, People descended from Hevæus the Son of Canaan. This people dwelt at first in the country which was afterwards possessed by the Caphtorims or Philistines. The Scripture says expressly, that the Caphtorims drove out the Avims, who dwelt in Hasserim even unto Azzah. There were also Avims or Hivites at Schechem or Gibeon, and consequently in the center of the promised land; for the inhabitants of Schechem and the Gibeonites were Hivites. Lastly there were some of them beyond Jordan, at the foot of mount Hermon. Bochart thinks that Cadmus, who conducted a colony of Phœnicians into Greece, was a Hivite. His name Cadmus comes from the Hebrew, Kedem, the East, because he came from the Eastern part of the land of Canaan. The name of his Wife Hermione was taken from mount Hermon, at the foot whereof the Hivites dwelt. The metamorphosis of Cadmus’s companions into serpents, is founded upon the signification of the name of Hivites, which in the Phœnician language signifies Serpents.
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