a people descended from Canaan. They dwelt at first in the country which was afterwards possessed by the Caphtorims, or Philistines. There were Hivites likewise at Shechem and Gibbon, and consequently in the centre of the promised land; for the inhabitants of Shechem and the Gibonites were Hivites. (Josh. xi. 19. Gen. xxxiv. 2.) Lastly, there were some beyond Jordan, at the foot of mount Hermon (Joshua xi. 3.)