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 Amos — 3 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.
Amos
- Amos 1:8 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, And him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; And I will turn my hand against Ekron; And the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh.
- Amos 6:2 פְּלִשְׁתּ֗ים n Gentilic mp Go to Calneh, and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border?
- Amos 9:7 וּ/פְלִשְׁתִּיִּ֥ים conj + n Gentilic mp Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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.
