chiv.vi identifies a people group named in land lists, resident locations, and ancestry notices.

The term is consistently a masculine singular gentilic identifying a people group. It is most often listed among groups associated with the land and its inhabitants, while other verses apply the same designation to residents of particular places or to named individuals in family notices.

1. Gentilic designation for a people group · dominant

   The masculine singular gentilic identifies a people group, frequently within lists connected with the land and its inhabitants: in Exodus 23:28 the APB renders the clause about driving out “the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite,” and in Joshua 11:3 it places this group under Mount Hermon in the land of Mizpah. The same designation marks people living in Gibeon in Joshua 11:19, qualifies Hamor in Genesis 34:2 and Zibeon in Genesis 36:2, and names inhabitants of Lebanon’s hill country in Judges 3:3.

   Exodus 23:28Joshua 11:3Joshua 11:19Genesis 34:2Genesis 36:2Judges 3:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB generally presents the term as “Hivite” in singular list and ancestry contexts and as “Hivites” where the clause concerns a group of inhabitants. These English forms confirm the verse-level presentation rather than supplying a separate lexical distinction.