HAZERIM.In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] a place-name, but rightly replaced by villages in RV [Note: Revised Version.] (Deu_2:23).
J. F. MCurdy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
The villages or "enclosures" of the wandering Avvim, the ancient occupants of southwestern Palestine (Deu_2:28). (See HAZAR.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Haze'rim. (villages). The Avim, or more accurately the Avvim, are said to have lived "in the villages (Authorized Version, 'Hazerim') as far as Gaza", Deu_2:23, before their expulsion by the Caphtorim.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ha-zē?rim, haz?ẽr-im (חצרים, ḥăcērı̄m): Is rendered in the King James Version (Deu_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
PRINTER 1915.
Hazerim
[many Haze'rim] (Hebrew Chatserim', חֲצֵטַים, villages; Sept. Α᾿σηρώθ, Vulg. flaserim), the name of a place, or perh. rather a general designation of the temporary villages in which the nomade AVITES resided, especially between Gaza and the river of Egypt or el-Arish (Deuteronomy 2, 23). Schwarz suggests (Palestine, p. 93) that these Hazerim may be a general designation of the many towns by the name of HAZOR and HAZAR found in this region; if so, these probably all lay near each other; and it is a singular fact that the sites of at least two of them, Hazar-gaddah and Hazar-susah, seem to have been immediately adjoining one another.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.