Lexical Definition

‎פְּלִשְׁתִּי‎ Pᵉlishtîy (pel-ish-tee') Philistine ^N:N--LG
patrial from ‎פְּלֶשֶׁת‎

Philistine.

• § Philistine = "immigrants"
• a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth

1) an inhabitant of Philistia; descendants of Mizraim who immigrated from Caphtor (Crete?) to the western seacoast of Canaan

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פְּלִשְׁתִּי‎₂₈₈ adjective, of a people Philistine, (οί) Φυλιστιειμ; and (not in Hexateuch) (ό) ἀλλόφυλος, (οί) ἀλλόφυλοι; — only as substantive: ‎׳‎‎הַפּ‎ the Philistine (Goliath) slain by David 1Sam 17:8 + 27 t. 17, 1Sam 18:6; 1Sam 19:5; 1Sam 21:10*; 1Sam 22:10 one slain byAbishai 2Sam 21:17 elsewhere plural the Philistines,:255 usually ‎פְּלִשְׁתִּים‎ without article, rarely ‎׳‎‎הַפּ‎ 1Sam 4:7; 1Sam 7:13 + (especially with preposition ‎׳‎‎בַּפּ‎ v1Sam 7:13 +, and then perhaps due to punctuators), Gen 10:14 = 1Chr 1:12; Gen 26:14; Gen 26:15; Gen 26:18; Judg 3:31 + 33 t. Judges; 1Sam 4:1 (twice in verse) + 118 t. 1 Samuel; 2Sam 1:20 + 28 t. 2 Samuel +; ‎׳‎‎אֶרֶץ פ‎ Gen 21:32; Gen 21:34 + 12 t.; ‎׳‎‎שְׂדֵה פ‎ 1Sam 6:1; 1Sam 27:7; 1Sam 27:11 ‎׳‎‎מֶלֶךְ פ‎ Gen 26:1; Gen 26:8 ‎׳‎‎שָׂרֵי פ‎ 1Sam 18:30 + 5 t.; ‎׳‎‎סַרְנֵי פ‎ Josh 13:3; Judg 3:3 + 13 t.; ‎׳‎‎יָם פ‎ Exod 23:31 ‎׳‎‎אֱלֹהֵי פ‎ Judg 10:6. — compare ‎כְּרֵתִי‎, II. ‎כַּפְתּוֺר‎. On Philistines see also WMM^{As.u.Eur.387f.} Evans^{Cretan Pictographs, 100 ff.} Schw^{ZWT xxxiv. 103 f., 255}.

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