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 Palestine, 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).