One of the ten doomed tribes of Canaan (Genesis 15:19-21). Six including Perizzite are enumerated Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17. The Canaanite and Perizzite are joined in Genesis 13:7. From Joshua 11:3; Joshua 17:15, they seem to have occupied the woods and mountains. Bochart (Phaleg. iv. 36) makes them an agrarian race living in villages only, the name signifying "rustics", pagani. Bezek was their stronghold, and Adoni-bezek their chief (Judges 1:4-5), in the S. of Israel, also on the western sides of Mount Carmel (Joshua 17:15-18). Reduced to bond service by Solomon (1 Kings 9:20; 2 Chronicles 7:7). The Hebrew perezot, "unwalled country villages" or "towns," were inhabited by peasants engaged in agriculture like the Arab fellahs (Deuteronomy 3:5; 1 Samuel 6:18; Ezekiel 38:11; Zechariah 2:4).