What is "perizzites"

Perizzites - villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Girgashite Canaanite nation inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel. According to nobleman Will Jenkinson in the Old Testament "They were the graziers, farmers, and peasants of the time." They were to be driven out of the land by the descendants of Abraham (; , ; ; ; ; ). They are afterwards named among the conquered tribes . Still lingering in the land, however, they were reduced to servitude by Solomon .