HEVÆI (anc. geog.), one of the seven people who occupied Canaan; a principal and numerous people, and the same with the Kadmonsi, dwelling at the foot of Hermon;
Hermon and partly of Libanus, or between Libanus and Hermon (Judges iii. 3.) To this Bachart refers the fables concerning Cadmus and his wife Harmonia, or Hermonia, changed to serpents; the name Hevi denoting a wild beast, such as is a serpent. Cadmus, who is said to have carried the use of letters to Greece, seems to have been a Kadmonian; of whom the Greeks say that he came to their country from Phœnicia.