פְּרִזִּי
Perizzite
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6522 appears — 23 distinct verses across 9 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 13:7 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
- Genesis 15:20 הַ/פְּרִזִּ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
- Genesis 34:30 וּ/בַ/פְּרִזִּ֑י conj + prep det + n Gentilic ms Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 3:8 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large 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 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms 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 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּי֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.
- Exodus 33:2 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Exodus 34:11 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Observe that which I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 7:1 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֗י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Deuteronomy 20:17 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
Joshua 6 verses
- Joshua 3:10 הַ/פְּרִזִּי֙ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
- Joshua 9:1 הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
- Joshua 11:3 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֥י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
- Joshua 12:8 הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Joshua 17:15 הַ/פְּרִזִּ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
- Joshua 24:11 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֜י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
Judges 3 verses
- Judges 1:4 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֖י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
- Judges 1:5 הַ/פְּרִזִּֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
- Judges 3:5 וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
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פרזי (Pᵉrizzîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Perizzite.” It first appears in Genesis 13:7. Spanning 23 verses in 9 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Joshua dominates its distribution — 6 of 23 verses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6522 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,368
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,368 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 43%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 43%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Perizzites 18×, Perizzite 5×
- American Standard Version: Perizzite 14×, Perizzites 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Perizzites 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Perizzite 12×, Perizzites 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6522 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6522 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6522 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6522 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Perizzite = "belonging to a village"
- a people who inhabited southern Canaan prior to the conquest
Word origin
Derived from פרזי (pᵉrâzîy) (H6521) — villager.
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H6522 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 20:17 | 7 |
| הַ/פְּרִזִּ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 9:1 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּרִזִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 15:20 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּרִזִּי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 9:20 | 2 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 23:23 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּרִזִּ֣י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 9:1 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּרִזִּֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 1:5 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 1:4 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 7:1 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֛י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 9:8 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 24:11 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּרִזִּ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 11:3 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/פְּרִזִּ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 34:30 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 21 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 23 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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