The name may be related to a Hebrew term meaning "rural person.
[3] Canaanitic tribes settled in the south of Canaan between Hor and Negeb, although it is not mentioned in the genealogy in Gen. x.
According to the Biblical references, Abraham, when he entered Canaan, found the Perizzites dwelling near the Canaanites (ib.
Jacob reproved his sons because of the crime of Shechem, inasmuch as he feared the Perizzites and the Canaanites (ib.
8); and at a later time the tribes of Simeon and Judah conquered the Canaanites and the Perizzites (Judges i.