Dict: smith - AVIM

smith:

AVIM - A>@ - (ruins), A’vims or A’vites . A people among the early inhabitants of Palestine, whom we meet with in the southwest corner of the seacoast, whither they may have made their way north-ward from the desert, (2:23) probably the same as the Hivites. The people of Avva, among the colonists who were sent by the king of Assyria to reinhabit the depopulated cities of Israel. ( kjv@2Kings:17:31)