perizi · Perizzite

What it means

perizi (פְּרִזִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Perizzite”.

One of the peoples that lived in Canaan before Israel.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One of the peoples of Canaan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Perizzite ×20
• Perizzites ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Exodus×5
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×6
• Judges×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1

• Genesis 13:7

  So there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living then in the land.

• Genesis 15:20

  the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 3:17

  and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

• Exodus 23:23

  For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.

• Exodus 33:2

  And I will send before you an angel, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Exodus 34:11

  Keep for yourself what I am commanding you today. Look, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• Deuteronomy 7:1

  When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

• Deuteronomy 20:17

  but you shall surely devote them to destruction: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you,

• Joshua 3:10

  And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that a living El is among you, and that he will certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Joshua 11:3

  the Canaanite in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

• Joshua 12:8

  in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

• Joshua 17:15

  And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear ground for yourself there in the land of the Perizzite and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

• Joshua 24:11

  And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.

• Judges 1:4

  Judah went up, and YHWH gave the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hand, and they struck them at Bezek, ten thousand men.

• Judges 1:5

  They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him, and they struck the Canaanite and the Perizzite.

• Judges 3:5

  So the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

• 1 Kings 9:20

  All the people who were left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of the sons of Israel,

• 2 Chronicles 8:7

  All the people who were left of the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of Israel,

• Ezra 9:1

  And when these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

• Nehemiah 9:8

  and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring; and you have fulfilled your words, for righteous are you.