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Perizzites @ villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Canaanitish nation inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel. "They were the graziers, farmers, and peasants of the time." They were to be driven out of the land by the descendants of Abraham kjv@Genesis:15:20; kjv@Exodus:3:8 kjv@Exodus:3:17 kjv@Exodus:23:23 kjv@Exodus:33:2 ; 34:11). They are afterwards named among the conquered tribes kjv@Joshua:24:11). Still lingering in the land, however, they were reduced to servitude by Solomon (kjvKings:9:20).