Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Villages, probably the name of the temporary villages in which the nomad Avites resided (Deut. 2:23).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(villages). The Avim, or more accurately the Avvim, are said to have lived “in the villages (Authorized Version ’Hazerim’) as far as Gaza,” (2:23) before their expulsion by the Caphtorim.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
HAZE'RIM (the villages). In Deut 2:28 we read that the Avim dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzeh or Gaza; and the notice of the Avites in Josh 13:3-4, as the most southern of the tribes inhabiting the Canaanitish country clearly identifies their land with the mountains of Azazimeh. See Palmer's Desert of the Exodus (Amer. ), p. 360.