פְּלִשְׁתִּי
Philistine
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6430 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 23 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 1:12 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים n Gentilic mp and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whence came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
- 1 Chronicles 10:1 וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים conj + n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:2 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
- 1 Chronicles 10:7 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 10:8 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- 1 Chronicles 10:9 פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים n Gentilic mp They stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news to their idols, and to the people.
- 1 Chronicles 10:11 פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים n Gentilic mp When all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
- 1 Chronicles 11:13 וְ/הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ פְלִשְׁתִּֽים conj + ptcl def.art + n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 11:14 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp They stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and killed the Philistines; and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:16 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
- 1 Chronicles 11:18 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp The three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
- 1 Chronicles 12:19 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
- 1 Chronicles 14:8 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
- 1 Chronicles 14:9 וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים conj + n Gentilic mp Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 14:10 פלשתיים פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and will you deliver them into my hand? Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.
- 1 Chronicles 14:13 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
- 1 Chronicles 14:15 פְלִשְׁתִּֽים n Gentilic mp It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God is gone out before you to strike the host of the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 14:16 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp David did as God commanded him: and they struck the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
- 1 Chronicles 18:1 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp After this it happened, that David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 18:11 וּ/מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים conj + prep + n Gentilic mp These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
- 1 Chronicles 20:5 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
פלשתי (Pᵉlishtîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Philistine.” 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 125 of 244 verses. Spanning 244 verses in 18 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 10:14. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6430 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 244
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 244 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #169
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 169 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 244 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 244 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 204 verses · 84%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 30 verses · 12%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 10 verses · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Philistines 218×, Philistine 30×, Against the philistines 8×
- American Standard Version: Philistines 205×, Philistine 27×, Against the philistines 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Philistines 205×, Philistine 44×, Now the philistines 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Philistines 232×, Philistine 33×, Against the philistines 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6430 across 288 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6430 across 287 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6430 across 280 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6430 across 285 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Philistine = "immigrants"
- an inhabitant of Philistia…
Word origin
Derived from פלשת (Pᵉlesheth) (H6429) — Philistia.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פְּלִשְׁתִּי
- (b. h.) Philistine.—Pl. פְּלִשְׁתִּים. Sot. VIII, 1 פ׳ באו וכ׳ the Philistines came with boastful reliance on &c., v. נִצָּחוֹן. Midr. Till. to Ps. LX. Num. R. s. 14 ארץ פ׳ Philistia; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 72 distinct written forms H6430 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Amos 1:8 | 38 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 16:57 | 23 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 10:1 | 22 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 10:2 | 17 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 21:32 | 17 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Ezekiel 25:15 | 16 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 12:19 | 11 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:11 | 9 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 10:1 | 9 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 4:2 | 9 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:10 | 8 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 10:11 | 8 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:13 | 7 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 10:9 | 5 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֤ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 13:12 | 4 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 7:10 | 4 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 7:13 | 3 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 4:7 | 3 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֣ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 7:10 | 3 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 12:9 | 3 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 16:9 | 3 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֗ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 19:8 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 5:19 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:8 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֛י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:42 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:51 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֣י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:26 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֨י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:23 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:40 | 2 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:43 | 2 |
| וּ/מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 18:11 | 2 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 13:5 | 2 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 5:1 | 2 |
| מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 14:4 | 2 |
| פְלִשְׁתִּ֛ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 6:17 | 2 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֛ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 18:8 | 2 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֜ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 4:1 | 2 |
| פְּלִשְׁתִּ֧ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 12:19 | 2 |
| בַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 23:2 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 13:4 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 23:2 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֜ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:10 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 14:30 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:9 | 1 |
| בַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּים֮ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 18:27 | 1 |
| ה/פלשתים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:12 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 13:20 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֛ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:51 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:26 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:32 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 21:16 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:13 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 14:47 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 26:6 | 1 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:21 | 1 |
| וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּיִּ֥ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Amos 9:7 | 1 |
| וּ/פִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Judges 15:14 | 1 |
| כַּ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 2:6 | 1 |
| לַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 15:27 | 1 |
| לַ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:15 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 12 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 220 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 244 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 10:14
- Exodus 13:17
- Joshua 13:2
- Judges 3:3
- 1 Samuel 4:1
- 2 Samuel 1:20
- 1 Kings 15:27
- 2 Kings 8:2
- 1 Chronicles 1:12
- 2 Chronicles 9:26
- Psalms 56:1
- Isaiah 2:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
