The most obscure of the seven nations of Deuteronomy 7:1, and demonstrably so. The name occurs in seven verses of the whole Hebrew Bible — Genesis 10:16 and Genesis 15:21 (both already on these pages), Deuteronomy 7:1, Joshua 3:10, Joshua 24:11, 1 Chronicles 1:14 and Nehemiah 9:8 — and every one of the seven is a LIST. No Girgashite speaks, fights, rules a city or is fought anywhere in the Bible. ⚠ Deuteronomy’s other statement of the ban names six nations and leaves the Girgashite out (20:17), which is one reason the seven-item list reads as a deliberately round number rather than a census.