Inhabitants of two Phoenician cities (see on Gen. 10:17).

 This people dwelt on the slopes of Lebanon (Joshua 11:3; Judges 3:3), and also in Gibeon and Shechem (Joshua 9:7; Gen. 34:2). Nothing is known positively from extra-Biblical sources about the Hivites, but some think they may have been Horites or Hurrians (see on Joshua 9:3).