Philistine
פְּלִשְׁתִּיStrong’s H6430pelishti (pe-lish-ti)
Appears in 244 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pelishti is the Hebrew word usually translated “philistines”, “philistine” and “from philistines”. It appears in 244 verses of the Old Testament.
“And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.”
Meaning
- Philistine = "immigrants"
- A Philistine living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.14
How it's translated
- philistines 200
- the philistine 33
- and philistines 19
- the philistines 12
- from philistines 4
- to the philistines 4
- among the philistines 3
- against the philistines 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 125
- Judges 31
- 2 Samuel 24
- 1 Chronicles 23
- Genesis 8
- 2 Chronicles 6
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 21:32Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 21:34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines’ land many days.
- Genesis 26:1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- Genesis 26:8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
- Genesis 26:14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
All 244 verses, by book
- Judges 31
- 3:33:3110:610:710:1113:113:514:114:214:314:415:315:515:615:915:1115:1215:1415:2016:516:816:916:1216:1416:1816:2016:2116:2316:2716:2816:30
- 1 Samuel 125
- 4:14:24:34:64:74:94:104:175:15:25:85:116:16:26:46:126:166:176:186:217:37:77:87:107:117:137:149:1610:512:913:313:413:513:1113:1213:1613:1713:1913:2013:2314:114:414:1114:1914:2114:2214:3014:3114:3614:3714:4614:4714:5217:117:217:317:417:817:1017:1117:1617:1917:2117:2317:2617:3217:3317:3617:3717:4017:4117:4217:4317:4417:4517:4617:4817:4917:5017:5117:5217:5317:5417:5517:5718:618:1718:2118:2518:2718:3019:519:821:922:1023:123:223:323:423:523:2723:2824:127:127:727:1128:128:428:528:1528:1929:129:229:329:429:729:929:1130:1631:131:231:731:831:931:11
- 2 Samuel 24
- 1:203:143:185:175:185:195:225:245:258:18:1219:921:1221:1521:1721:1821:1923:923:1023:1123:1223:1323:1423:16
- 1 Chronicles 23
- 1:1210:110:210:710:810:910:1111:1311:1411:1511:1611:1812:1914:814:914:1014:1314:1514:1618:118:1120:420:5
- Psalms 1
- 56:1
- Obadiah 1
- 1:19
- Zephaniah 1
- 2:5
- Zechariah 1
- 9:6
Hebrew dictionary
פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti · Philistine
Philistine = "immigrants" an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan Another spelling of pe.le.shet (פְּלֶ֫שֶׁת "Philistia" H6429)
פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti · Philistine
A Philistine living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.14; son of: Casluhim (H3695) § Philistine = "immigrants" an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.