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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

gaz'-its:

Inhabitants of Gaza, who were Philistines when the Israelites came into contact with them (Jos 13:3; Jud 16:2), but there was an older stratum of population which occupied the place before the invasion of the Philistines, probably of Amorite stock.