This list contains tribes or other groups of people named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections.

Apharsachites

A company of the colonists whom the Assyrian king planted in Samaria .

Apharsites

Another of the tribes removed to Samaria, or perhaps the same as Apharsachites

Arkites

Arkites, also Archites were the descendants of Canaan according to Genesis 10:17 and 1 Chronicles 1:15 and were inhabitants of the land of Canaan

Canaan

Canaan is a historical region roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan...

 according to Joshua 16:2. David's friend Hushai

Hushai

Hushai or Chusai was a friend of David and a spy according to the Hebrew Bible. During Absalom's rebellion described in the Second Book of Samuel, he agrees to act as an advisor to Absalom to sabotage his plans while secretly sending information to David...

 was an Archite (2 Samuel 15:32).

Arvadites

Arvadites were the descendants of Canaan according to Genesis 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 1:16.

Girgashites

Girgashites, or Girgasites, were the descendants of Canaan according to Genesis 10:16 and 1 Chronicles 1:14 and were inhabitants of the land of Canaan

Canaan

Canaan is a historical region roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan...

 according to Genesis 15:21, Deuteronomy 7:1, Joshua 3:10, 24:11, and Nehemiah 9:8. At times they are not listed along with the other Canaanite tribes inhabiting the Holy Land; according to some, such as Rashi

Rashi

Shlomo Yitzhaki , or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi , was a medieval French rabbi famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh...

, this is because they left the Land of Israel before the Israelites returned from Egypt.

Hamathites

Hamathites were the descendants of Canaan according to Genesis
10:18 and 1 Chronicles 1:16.

Lehabim

Lehabim were a people descending of Mizraim

Mizraim

Mizraim is the Hebrew name for the land of Egypt, with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the "two Egypts": Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt....

 according to Genesis 10:13, 1 Chronicles 1:11. See Lubims

Lubims

The Lubims in the Old Testament, meaning the inhabitants of a thirsty or scorched land; the Libyans, an African nation under tribute to Egypt . Their territory was apparently near Egypt. They were probably the Mizraite Lehabim....

, Libu

Libu

The Libu were an ancient Berber tribe, from which the name Libya derives....

, and Ancient Libya

Ancient Libya

The Latin name Libya referred to the region west of the Nile Valley, generally corresponding to modern Northwest Africa. Climate changes affected the locations of the settlements....

.

Naphtuhim

Naphtuhim were a people descending of Mizraim

Mizraim

Mizraim is the Hebrew name for the land of Egypt, with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the "two Egypts": Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt....

 according to Genesis 10:13, 1 Chronicles 1:11.

Zemarites

Zemarites were the descendants of Canaan according to Genesis 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 1:16.

See also

• List of Biblical figures
• List of Biblical names
• List of minor Biblical figures
• Avvites (of Philistia)
  Avvites (of Philistia)
  The Avvites of southwest Philistia, are a people and place mentioned in the Bible and related literature. The Talmud notes that the Avvites were the first Philistines...