gāz´ı̄ts : Inhabitants of Gaza, who were Philistines when the Israelites came into contact with them ( Joshua 13:3; Judges 16:2 ), but there was an older stratum of population which occupied the place before the invasion of the Philistines, probably of Amorite stock.
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source-manifest/isbe— ISBE (PD)