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Philistia
Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary, the most advanced Bible dictionary.
Ancient south Levantine region where the Philistines, a foreign population from the Mediterranean known from both historical and biblical sources, settled around 1200 bc (at the beginning of the Iron Age). The region preserved its own cultural identity until its final submission to the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II around 600 bc.
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary
Philistia
Philistia (פְּלֶשֶׁת‎, pelesheth). Ancient south Levantine region where the Philistines, a foreign population from the Mediterranean known from both historical and biblical sources, settled around 1200 bc (at the beginning of the Iron Age). The region preserved its own cultural identity until its final
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
Philistia, Philistines
Philistia, Philistines. Small, aggressive country situated in southwestern Palestine, along the Mediterranean coast (also called Palestina in kjv Ex 15:14; Is 14:29, 31); Aegean people who settled on the maritime plain of Canaan.
Palestina
Palestina. kjv rendering of Philistia, a country along the southwest coast of Canaan, in Exodus 15:14 and Isaiah 14:29, 31.See Philistia, Philistines.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
Philistia
Philistia fə-lisʹtē-yə [Heb. pelešeṯ] (Ex. 15:14; Ps. 60:8 [MT 10]; 83:7 [MT 8]; 87:4; 108:9 [MT 10]; Isa. 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4 [MT 4:4]); [pelištîm] (Zec. 9:6); AV also PALESTINA, PHILISTINES, PALESTINE; NEB also PHILISTINE (S). The region later known as Palestine, whose people were the Philistines.
Tyndale Bible Dictionary
Philistia, Philistines
PHILISTIA, PHILISTINES Small country situated in southwestern Palestine, along the Mediterranean coast (also called “Palestina” in kjv, Ex 15:14; Is 14:29–31); Aegean people who settled on the maritime plain of Canaan.Preview•Territory•The People•Government•Religion and Ritual Objects•The Philistines
Palestina
PALESTINA* kjv rendering of Philistia, a country along the southwest coast of Canaan, in Exodus 15:14 and Isaiah 14:29–31. See Philistia, Philistines.
Catholic Bible Dictionary
Philistia
PHILISTIA The land occupied by the Philistines on the southwestern coast of Palestine.
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Philistia
Philis´tia (Heb. Pelesheth) (land of sojourners). The word thus translated (in Ps. 60:8; 87:4; 108:9) is in the original identical with that elsewhere rendered Palestine, which always means land of the Philistines. (Philistia was the plain on the southwest coast of Palestine. It was 40 miles long on
Palestina
Palesti´na and Pal´estine (land of strangers). These two forms occur in the DAV but four times in all, always in poetical passages; the first in Ex. 15:14 and Isa. 14:29, 31; the second, Joel 3:4. In each case the Hebrew is Pelesheth, a word found, besides the above, only in Ps. 60:8; 83:7; 87:4 and
The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary
Philistia
PHILIS´TIA (fil-isʹti-a). The land of the Philistines (which see), as it is usually called in poetry (Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29–31; Pss. 60:8; 87:4; 108:9).
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Philistia
Philistia—=Palestine (q.v.), “the land of the Philistines” (Ps. 60:8; 87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean “the land of wanderers” or “of strangers.”
Harper’s Bible Dictionary
Philistia
PhilistiaPhilistia (fi-lisʹtya; Heb. peleshet), the territory controlled by the Philistines, the fertile coastal plain of Palestine that stretches from the ‘River of Egypt’ northward to Ekron. See also Philistines.
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Philistia
PHILISTIA [fih LIS tih uh] — the land of the Philistines (see Map 3, A–4), as used in the poetry of the Book of Psalms (60:8; 108:9). This land lay between Joppa and Gaza on the coastal plain of Palestine. Also see Palestine.
Palestina
PALESTINA [pal ess TIE nuh] — the west coast of Canaan, from the Brook of Egypt to Joppa (Ex. 15:14; Philistia, NRSV, NASB, REB, NIV). Palestina is an alternate spelling for Philistia and Palestine.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PHILISTIA
PHILISTIA<fi-lis’-ti-a>: The country is referred to under various designations in the Old Testament: namely, [פְּלֶשֶׁת, pelesheth] (Philistia) (Psalm 60:8 (Hebrew 10); 87:4), [אֶרֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּים, ’erets pelishtim], “land of the Philistines” (Genesis 21:32, 34), [גְּלוֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים‎,
PALESTINA
PALESTINA<pal-es-ti’-na> ([פְּלֶשֶׁת, pelesheth]): Exodus 15:14; Isaiah 14:29, 31 the King James Version; changed in the Revised Version (British and American) to PHILISTIA (which see).