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title: פְּרִזִּי — Perizzite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּרִזִּי (6522), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 23 times: Perizzite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Perizzite. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּרִזִּי

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«פְּרִזִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Perizzite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 23 times · **Key:** 6522 · **BDB:** פְּרִזִּי

### Glosses

Perizzite\[s\] (22); the.Perizzite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Perizzite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6522/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Perizzite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6522/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Perizzite (poss., but not certainly, connected with above √);—only הַפּ׳ as n.pr.coll. ὁ (οἱ) Φερεζαῖος (-αῖοι), of ancient inhab. of Canaan, + הַכְּנַעֲנִי \[q.v.\] Gn 13:7; 34:30 (J), Ju 1:4, 5; also in list of peoples dispossessed by Israel Gn 15:20 Ex 3:8 + 17 times

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּרִזִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6522/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 15:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.20/)

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וְאֶת־הַחִתִּ֥י וְאֶת־הַפְּרִזִּ֖י וְאֶת־הָרְפָאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the Hittite\[s\] and (et) the Perizzite\[s\] and (et) the Rephaites

*JPS 1917:* and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

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[Judges 1:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.5/)

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וַֽ֠יִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ אֲדֹנִ֥י בֶ֙זֶק֙ בְּבֶ֔זֶק וַיִּֽלָּחֲמ֖וּ בּ֑וֹ וַיַּכּ֕וּ אֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י וְאֶת־הַפְּרִזִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.found (et) Adoni-Bezek Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and they.fought against him and they.defeated (et) the Canaanite\[s\] and (et) the Perizzite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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