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# פְּלֶשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6429

**Palestina** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Palestina [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6429/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלֶ֫שֶׁת: n.pr.terr. Philistia [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6429/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.terr. Philistia, poet. and late;—פְּלָ֑שֶׁת (ישְׁבֵי) Ex 15:14 (Φυλιστιειμ; elsewhere (οἱ) ἀλλόφυλοι), Jo 4:4, elsewhere פְּלֶשֶׁת Is 14:29, 31 ψ 60:10 = 108:10; 83:8; 87:4; Assyrian Palastu, Pilistu, COT Gn 10:14 DlPa 288 f. Gk. Παλαιστίνη Herod. ii. 104, 106, vii. 89 JosAnt. i, 6, 2 (also Φυλιστίνου); v. Rel Pal. 73 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Philistia (4); O Philistia (2); of Philistia (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.14/#tree)

שָֽׁמְע֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים יִרְגָּז֑וּן חִ֣יל אָחַ֔ז יֹשְׁבֵ֖י פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* they.have.heard peoples they tremble anguish it.has.seized the.inhabitants of.Philistia

*JPS 1917:* The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

[Psalms 83:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.8/#tree)

גְּבָ֣ל וְ֭עַמּוֹן וַעֲמָלֵ֑ק פְּ֝לֶ֗שֶׁת עִם־יֹ֥שְׁבֵי צֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* Gebal and Ammon and Amalek Philistia with the.inhabitants of.Tyre

*JPS 1917:* Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6429.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6429/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).