GIRZITES.Acc. to 1Sa_27:8, David and his men while living at the court of Achish king of Gath, made a raid upon the Geshurites and the Girzites (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] Gizrites) and the Amalekites: for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, which were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] (B) is probably correct in reading only one name Gizrites for Geshurites and Girzites, viz. the Canaanite inhabitants of Gezer (wh. see), a town on the S.W. border of Ephraim (Jos_10:33; Jos_16:3; Jos_16:10, Jdg_1:29).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
gûr?zı̄ts. See GIZRITES.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.