1. The Avvim are spoken of in De 2:23 (cf. Jos 13:4) as primitive inhabitants of S.W. Palestine near Gaza, who were absorbed by the immigrants from Caphtor (wh. see), i.e. the Philistines. 2. A Benjamite town (Jos 18:23); site unknown.
J. F. McCurdy.
And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;
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