Perizzite
פְּרִזִּיStrong’s H6522perizzi (pe-riz-zi)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Perizzi is the Hebrew word usually translated “perizzite” and “among the perizzite”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Periz(?), first mentioned at Gen.13.7
How it's translated
- and the perizzite 14
- the perizzite 8
- and among the perizzite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 6
- Exodus 5
- Genesis 3
- Judges 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Kings 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 15:20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
- Exodus 3:17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 23:23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
- Exodus 33:2And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Hebrew dictionary
פְּרִזִּי perizzi · Perizzite
Someone descended from Periz(?), first mentioned at Gen.13.7 § Perizzite = "belonging to a village" a people who inhabited southern Canaan prior to the conquest
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.