HEVÆI, in Ancient Geography, one of the seven tribes who occupied Canaan; a principal and numerous people, and the same with the Kadmonæi, dwelling at the foot of Hermon and part of Libanus, or between Libanus and Hermon (Judges iii. 3.). To that Bochart refers the fables concerning Cadmus and his wife Harmonia, or Hermonia, changed to serpents; the 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 Kadmonæan; of whom the Greeks say that he came to their country from Phœnicia.