Perida
(grain, kernel), The children of Perida returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:57) (B.C. before 536.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Perida
Perida pe-ri'-da (peridha' "recluse"): A family of "Solomon's servants" (Ne 7:57). In Ezr 2:55, a difference in the Hebrew spelling gives "Peruda" for the same person, who is also the "Pharida" of 1 Esdras 5:33. ⇒See a list of verses on PERIDA in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Perida
The eponym of a dainty of ‘Solomon’s servants,’ Neh 757. In the arallel passage, Ezr 2, the name appears in the orm Peruda (x75; B Φερειδά, A Φαρειδά), and in 1 Es 5% as Pharida (B Φαρειδά, A Φαριδά, Luc. Φαδουρά). PERIZZITE (ὙΠ50).---ΤῊ6 name of one of the ‘peoples’ which were settled in Palestine before and at the period of the Isr. immigration. When the writers of the OT would characterize the country as it was at that period in respect to population, * Josephus, Ant. xtv. x. 22. t Reckoned by Th. Reinach, Teztes Relatife au Judaisme, Ρ. 240, xs 75,000 drachmm ere in weight to £3000 sterling) each individual paid two drachmm per annum. PERIZZITE they frequently enumerate a list of six ‘ peoples,’— the Amorite, the Hittite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite (Ex 3°* 119 233 * 3335 341 *, Dt 207*, Jos 91" 118 128, 28 3°), to which is sometimes added the Girgashite [Dt 7 Jos 3° 244, Neh 95 (where the Hivite is omitted)]. At a later date it is stated that Solomon reduced to slavery all the people in his kingdom who re- mained of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Pe…
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