Lexical Definition

‎עַוִּי‎ ʻAvvîy (av-vee') Avites ^N:N--PG
patrial from ‎עִוָּה‎

Avims, Avites.

• § Avims or Avites = "perverters"
• an Avvite or native of Avvah (only plural)

1) inhabitants of Ava or Ivah

Extended Information

spelling of: עִוָּה

• Avite = "perverters"
• Another spelling of iv.vah (‎ע‎ַ‎ו‎ָּ‎ה‎ "Ivvah" עִוָּה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎עַוִּי‎] adjective, of a people only plural ‎הַעַוִּים‎ as substantive, inhabitants of II. ‎עַוָּה‎ 2Kgs 17:31 (another ‎עַוִּים‎ below). ‎עוֺז‎ noun see ‎עֹז‎ below ‎עזז‎.

‎עַוִּים‎ proper name

1. of a people ‎׳‎‎הָע‎ people on southwest coast of Mediterranean before the ‎כַּפְתֹּרִים‎ (q. v.) came Deut 2:23, and remaining thereafter Josh 13:3 (D²), ᵐ5 Ευαιοι.

2. location ‎׳‎‎הָע‎ city in Benjamin Josh 18:23 (= ‎הָעַי‎ ?), ᵐ5 Αιειν, Αυειμ. — See also [‎עַוִּי‎] above

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