Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

This passage in Zechariah envisions a future time in which Jerusalem will be 
so populous that its walls will no longer hold its population, and the city 
will thus be "perazot - unwalled". This use of perazot is quite common. Some 
scholars have speculated that the title "perizi", as one of the pre-Israelite 
Canaanite groups, thus refers to those who lived in unwalled towns 
(villages?). In fact, passages such as Deut. 3:5 seem to indicate just that. 
But is this always so? Or might "Perizi" also be an ethnonym, without 
connection to a certain type of settlement? Might the Perizi once have all 
lived in Perazot, but later also in walled cities and were still called by 
their old name? Who knows.


Yigal Levin 

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Fried
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Early and late biblical Hebrew

PRAZOT TE$EB YRU$ALAIM ... Zechariah 2:8

פרזות תשב ירושלם מרב אדם ובהמה בתוכה

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Nov 25, 2011, at 6:40 PM, jimstinehart AT aol.com wrote:

> The PRZY did not live “spread out”.  The most famous PRZY lived  
> in Jerusalem.

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