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1 Samuel 17:3

“And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

פְּלִשְׁתִּיPᵉlishtîy · pel-ish-tee'
H6430 · Hebrew

Definition: a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
Derivation: patrial from H6429 (פְּלֶשֶׁת);
KJV renderings: Philistine.
Grammar: וּ — conjunction
פְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים — gentilic noun, masculine, plural, absolute
Code HC/Ngmpa
Usage: Occurs 290 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:14 Genesis 21:32 Genesis 21:34 Genesis 26:1 Genesis 26:8

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read פְּלִשְׁתִּי here.

Verse 2 Verse 4

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.