פְּלִשְׁתִּי
Pᵉlishtîy · H6430 · Hebrew · proper noun · 288 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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Philistine
Inhabitant of Philistia, considered to have come from Kaphtor
ExamplesGenesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 21:32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:34 And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for many days.
How it’s used In 8 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- זֶהthis 5
- עָרֵלuncircumcised person 3
- הַלָּזthis 1
- אֵלֶּהthese 1
Named alongside itApposition
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- גׇּלְיַתGoliath 3
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- שְׁאֵרִיתremnant, rest 1
What it doesIt is the subject
82 occurrences in 36 groups
- אָמַרto say 6
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 6
- לָחַםto fight, to make war 5
- עָלָהto go up 5
- אָסַףto gather, to assemble 5
- שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 5
- Other words · 26 groups that occur once or twice (38) 38
What is done to itIt is the object
25 occurrences in 5 groups
- נָכָהto strike, to strike down 14
- קָרָאto meet, to happen 5
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
- רָדַףto pursue, to chase 2
- שָׁדַדto devastate, to destroy 2
What it is said to bePredicate
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- ךָּyou 4
- מִיwho? 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָנֹכִיI 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
51 occurrences in 9 groups
- בin/on/with 25
- מִןfrom 15
- עִםwith 14
- אֵלto, toward 12
- עַלon, upon, over, against 9
- אַחַרafter, behind 6
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
114 occurrences in 29 groups
- יָדhand, power 18
- סֶרֶןlord, ruler 17
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 14
- מַחֲנֶהcamp, army 11
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 8
- שַׂרcommander, chief, official 6
- Other words · 19 groups that occur once or twice (23) 23
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀλλόφυλος allóphylos · G246 · foreigner, heathen, pagan
- ἀλλόφυλος (allóphylos, G246) ἀλλόφυλος serves as the standard LXX rendering of פְּלִשְׁתִּי (Pᵉlishtîy, H6430) פְּלִשְׁתִּי, translating the specific ethnic designation 'Philistine' with the broader Greek term for 'foreign/of another tribe,' reflecting the Septuagint's practice of using descriptive equivalents for Israel's neighbors.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of Groups003001006
- פְּלִשְׁתִּי denotes a Philistine, a gentilic identifying the people of Philistia who repeatedly warred against Israel, from Abimelech's Philistines encountered by Abraham and Isaac to Goliath the Philistine champion defeated by David.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6430. Pelishti מְּלִשְׁתִּי288 adjective, of a people Philistine, (οί) Φυλιστιειμ; and…
מְּלִשְׁתִּי288 adjective, of a people Philistine, (οί) Φυλιστιειμ; and (not in Hexateuch) (ό) ἀλλόφυλος, (οί) ἀλλόφυλοι; — only as substantive: ׳הַמּ the Philistine (Goliath) slain by David 1Sa 17:8 1Sa 17:27t. 17, 1Sa 18:6; 1Sa 19:5; 1Sa 21:10; 1Sa 22:10; one slain byAbishai 2Sa 21:17; elsewhere plural the Philistines,:255 usually מְּלִשְׁתִּים without article, rarely ׳הַמּ 1Sa 4:7; 1Sa 7:13 + (especially with preposition ׳בַּמּ 1Sa 7:13 +, and then perhaps due to punctuators), Gen 10:14 = 1Ch 1:12; Gen 26:14-15, Gen 26:18; Jdg 3:31 33t. Judges; 1Sa 4:1 (twice in verse) + 118 t. 1Samuel; 2Sa 1:20 28t. 2Samuel +; פ ׳אֶרֶץ Gen 21:32, Gen 21:34 Gen 21:12t.; פ ׳שְׂדֵה 1Sa 6:1; 1Sa 27:7, 1Sa 27:11; פ ׳מֶלֶךְ Gen 26:1, Gen 26:8; פ ׳שָׂרֵי 1Sa 18:30 1Sa 18:5t.; פ ׳סַרְנֵי Jos 13:3; Jdg 3:3 Jdg 3:13t.; פ ׳יָם Exo 23:31; פ ׳אֱלֹהֵי Jdg 10:6. — compare כְּרֵתִי, II. כַּפְתּוֺר. On Philistines see also WMMAs.u.Eur.387f. EvansCretan Pictographs, 100 ff. SchwZWT xxxiv. 103 f., 255.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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