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Strong's #6429 - פְּלֶשֶׁת

Transliteration
Pᵉlesheth
Phonetics
pel-eh'-sheth
Origin
from (H6428)
Parts of Speech
Noun
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Philistia = “land of sojourners”

1) the general territory on the west coast of Canaan or the entire country of Palestine

Greek Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 246 ‑ ἀλλόφυλος (al‑lof'‑oo‑los);  
Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (8)
Exodus 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
NAS (8)
Exodus 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
HCS (8)
Exodus 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
BSB (8)
Exodus 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
ESV (7)
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
WEB (8)
Exodus 1
Psalms 4
Isaiah 2
Joel 1
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 מְּלֶ֫שֶׁת proper name, of a territory Philistia, in poetry and late; — (ישְׁבֵי) מְּלָ֑שֶׁת Exodus 15:14 (Φυλιστιειμ; elsewhere (οἱ) ἀλλόφυλοι), Joel 4:4, elsewhere מְּלֶשֶׁת Isaiah 14:29,31; Psalm 60:10 = Psalm 108:10; Psalm 83:8; Psalm 87:4; Assyrian Palastu, Pilistu, COT Genesis 10:14 Dl pa 288f. Greek Παλαιστίνη Herod ii. 104,106, vii. 89 Jos Ant. i. 6. 2 (also Φυλιστίνου); see Rel Pal. 73 f.


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Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

פְּלֶשֶׁת f. Philistœa (prop. “the land of wanderers,” “strangers,” see the root; compare Genesis 10:14; Amos 9:7, LXX. Ἀλλόφυλοι, γῆ Ἀλλοφύλων), pr.n. of a region on the southern shore of Syria, to the south and west of Canaan, Exodus 15:14; Isaiah 14:29, 31 Isaiah 14:31 Psal. 60:10, etc.; called by Josephus, Παλαιστίνη (Arch. i. 6, § 2), a name however which he elsewhere uses for the whole of the land of the Israelites (Arch. viii. 4). See Relandi Palæstina, page 38, seqq. Hence


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List of Word Forms
פְ֝לֶ֗שֶׁת פְּ֝לֶ֗שֶׁת פְּלֶ֣שֶׁת פְּלָ֑שֶׁת פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃ פְלֶ֙שֶׁת֙ פְלֶ֣שֶׁת פלשת פלשת׃ feLeshet pə·lā·šeṯ pə·le·šeṯ p̄ə·le·šeṯ pəlāšeṯ peLashet pəlešeṯ p̄əlešeṯ peLeshet
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