Avim

The Avim (also Avites) were an ancient people who inhabited the villages of the southwestern coastal region before the Philistines (Deuteronomy 2:23). The Caphtorim who came from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their territory. A remnant of the Avites, along with other peoples transplanted from Mesopotamia, was also settled in Samaria by the Assyrians after the fall of the northern kingdom (Joshua 13:3; 2 Kings 17:31).