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 Judges — 31 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.
Judges
- Judges 3:3 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp [namely], the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
- Judges 3:31 פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙ n Gentilic mp After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.
- Judges 10:6 פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
- Judges 10:7 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
- Judges 10:11 פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים n Gentilic mp Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
- Judges 13:1 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים n Gentilic mp The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
- Judges 13:5 פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים n Gentilic mp for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:1 פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים n Gentilic mp Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:2 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
- Judges 14:3 מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים prep + n Gentilic mp Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
- Judges 14:4 מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים prep + n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
- Judges 15:3 מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים prep + n Gentilic mp Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.
- Judges 15:5 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
- Judges 15:6 פְלִשְׁתִּים֮ פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 15:9 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- Judges 15:11 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
- Judges 15:12 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
- Judges 15:14 וּ/פִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים conj + n Gentilic mp When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
- Judges 15:20 פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים n Gentilic mp He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
- Judges 16:5 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
- Judges 16:8 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
- Judges 16:9 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים n Gentilic mp Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:12 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤ים n Gentilic mp So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
- Judges 16:14 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים n Gentilic mp She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
- Judges 16:18 פְלִשְׁתִּ֤ים פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp n Gentilic mp When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.
- Judges 16:20 פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים n Gentilic mp She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
- Judges 16:21 פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים n Gentilic mp The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
- Judges 16:23 פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים n Gentilic mp The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- Judges 16:27 פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים n Gentilic mp Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
- Judges 16:28 מִ/פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים prep + n Gentilic mp Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
- Judges 16:30 פְּלִשְׁתִּים֒ n Gentilic mp Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
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.