gerzites Summary and Overview
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gerzites in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(dwellers in the desert), The, a tribe who with the Geshurites and the Amalekites occupied the land between the south of Israel and Egypt in the time of Saul. #1Sa 27:8| In the name of Mount Gerizim we have the only remaining trace of the presence of this old tribe of Bedouins in central Israel.
gerzites in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
GER'ZITES . See Gezrites.
gerzites in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Gizrites, or Gerizzites. A Bedouin tribe once dwelling in central Israel, from whom mount Gerizim took its name, as another mount was named from the Amalekites when dwelling in ancient times in Ephraim (Judges 12:15). Afterward driven to the southern border of Israel, where with the Geshurites and Amalekites they were found by David in Saul's days (1 Samuel 27:8), rich in "sheep, oxen, asses, camels, and apparel." Read "Gerizzites."