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title: פְּלִשְׁתִּי — Philistine · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּלִשְׁתִּי (6430), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 288 times: Philistine. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Philistine. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּלִשְׁתִּי

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«פְּלִשְׁתִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Philistine** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 288 times · **Key:** 6430 · **BDB:** פְּלִשְׁתִּי

### Glosses

\[the\].Philistines (101); of.\[the\].Philistines (92); Philistines (52)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Philistine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6430/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Philistine [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6430/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Philistine, (οἱ) Φυλιστιειμ, and (not in Hex) (ὁ) ἀλλόφυλος, (οἱ) ἀλλόφυλοι;—only as subst.: הַפּ׳ the Philistine (Goliath) slain by David 1 S 17:8 + 27 times 17, 18:6; 19:5; 21:10; 22:10; one slain by Abishai 2 S 21:17; elsewhere pl. the Philistines255, usually פְּלִשְׁתִּים without art., rarely הַפּ׳ 1 S 4:7; 7:13 + (especially c. prep. בַּפּ׳ v 13 +, and then perhaps due to punctuators), Gn 10:14 = 1 Ch 1:12; Gn 26:14, 15, 18; Ju 3:31 + 33 times Ju, 1 S 4:1(×2) + 118 times 1 S, 2 S 1:20 + 28 times 2 S, +; אֶרֶץ פ׳ Gn 21:32, 34 + 12 times; שְׂדֵה פ׳ 1 S 6:1; 27:7, 11; מֶלֶךְ פ׳ Gn 26:1, 8; שָׂרֵי פ׳ 1 S 18:30 + 5 times; סַרְנֵי פ׳ Jos 13:3; Ju 3:3 + 13 times; יָם פ׳ Ex 23:31; אֱלֹהֵי פ׳ Ju 10:6.—Cf. כְּרֵתִי, II. כַּפְתּוֹר. On Philistines v. also WMMAs. u. Eur. 387 f. Evans Cretan Pictographs, 100 ff. Schwally ZWT xxxiv. 103 f., 255.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּלִשְׁתִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6430/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 13:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.23/)

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וַיֵּצֵא֙ מַצַּ֣ב פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים אֶֽל־מַעֲבַ֖ר מִכְמָֽשׂ׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.came.out the.garrison of.\[the\].Philistines to the.pass of.Micmash

*JPS 1917:* And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmas.

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[Genesis 21:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.34/)

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וַיָּ֧גָר אַבְרָהָ֛ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.sojourned Abraham in the.land of.\[the\].Philistines days many

*JPS 1917:* And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

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