Perizzites

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Perizzites
     villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Canaanitish nation
     inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel.
     "They were the graziers, farmers, and peasants of the time."
     They were to be driven out of the land by the descendants of
     Abraham (Gen. 15:20; Ex. 3:8, 17; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11). They are


     afterwards named among the conquered tribes (Josh. 24:11). Still
     lingering in the land, however, they were reduced to servitude
     by Solomon (1 Kings 9:20).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Perizzites, dwelling in villages