Bible dictionaries

Hazerim

What Bible dictionaries say about “Hazerim”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Hazerim - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Villages, probably the name of the temporary villages in which the nomad Avites resided (Deut. 2:23).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

ha-ze'-rim, haz'-er-im (chatserim): Is rendered in the King James Version (De 2:23) as the name of a place in the Southwest of Palestine, in which dwelt the Avvim, ancient inhabitants of the land. The word means "villages," and ought to be translated as in the Revised Version (British and American). The sentence means that the Avvim dwelt in villages--not in fortified towns--before the coming of the Caphtorim, the Philistines, who destroyed them.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(villages). The Avim, or more accurately the Avvim, are said to have lived "in the villages (Authorized Version Hazerim) as far as Gaza," (2:23) before their expulsion by the Caphtorim.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith