Philistines (224 Occurrences)

... The Philistines are called Pulsata or Pulista on the Egyptian monuments; the land of the Philistines (Philistia) being termed Palastu and Pilista in the ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philistines.htm - 75k

Caphtor (4 Occurrences)

... A chaplet, the original seat of the Philistines (Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7). The name is found written in hieroglyphics in the temple of Kom ... biblethesaurus.org/c/caphtor.htm - 11k

Keilah (16 Occurrences)

... David rescued it from the attack of the Philistines (1 Samuel 23:1-8); but the inhabitants proving unfaithful to him, in that they sought to deliver him up to ... biblethesaurus.org/k/keilah.htm - 15k

Ashkelon (12 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary =Askelon=Ascalon, was one of the five cities of the Philistines (Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:17). It stood ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ashkelon.htm - 13k

Delilah (7 Occurrences)

... She was bribed by the "lords of the Philistines" to obtain from Samson the secret of his strength and the means of overcoming it (Judges 16:4-18). ... biblethesaurus.org/d/delilah.htm - 10k

Michmash (10 Occurrences)

... This was the scene of a great battle fought between the army of Saul and the Philistines, who were utterly routed and pursued for some 16 miles towards ... biblethesaurus.org/m/michmash.htm - 14k

Kei'lah (16 Occurrences)

... (See RSV). 1 Samuel 23:1 And they told David, saying: 'Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.' (See RSV). ... biblethesaurus.org/k/kei'lah.htm - 10k

Philistia (12 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary =Palestine (qv), "the land of the Philistines" (Psalm 60:8; 87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean "the land o. Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philistia.htm - 12k

Caphtorim (3 Occurrences)

... 1. First Theory: Crete: The country and people whence came the Philistines (Genesis 10:14 = 1 Chronicles 1:12 (here the clause "whence went forth the ... biblethesaurus.org/c/caphtorim.htm - 10k

Subdued (41 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel. The hand of Yahweh was against ... biblethesaurus.org/s/subdued.htm - 19k

Abinadab (12 Occurrences)

... (1.) A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the ark of the covenant was deposited after having been brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Samuel ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abinadab.htm - 14k

Ashdod (21 Occurrences)

... It is now called Eshdud. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ASHDOD. ash'-dod ('ashdodh; Azotos; modern Esdud): One of the five chief cities of the Philistines. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ashdod.htm - 17k

Commanders (93 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 18:30 And the princes of the Philistines come out, and it cometh to pass from the time of their coming out, David hath acted more wisely than any of ... biblethesaurus.org/c/commanders.htm - 36k

Disclosed (18 Occurrences)

... Judges 16:18 And 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 ... biblethesaurus.org/d/disclosed.htm - 12k

Micmash (9 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the ... biblethesaurus.org/m/micmash.htm - 8k

Malchishua (5 Occurrences)

... He was slain by the Philistines with his brothers at the battle of Gilboa (1 Chronicles 10:2 1 Samuel 31:2). Multi-Version Concordance ... biblethesaurus.org/m/malchishua.htm - 9k

Michmas (11 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 13:5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand ... biblethesaurus.org/m/michmas.htm - 10k

Cherethites (11 Occurrences)

... Samuel 30:14). In 1 Samuel 30:16 this land is apparently identical with that of the Philistines. In Ezekiel 25:16 the Philistines... biblethesaurus.org/c/cherethites.htm - 11k

Aphek (9 Occurrences)

... It may be represented by 'Afqa on Nahr Ibrahim, although this is probably farther north than we should expect. (3) To this place the Philistines gathered their ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aphek.htm - 11k

A'chish (17 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 28:1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/a'chish.htm - 11k

Ash'kelon (10 Occurrences)

... the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward--which is counted to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ash'kelon.htm - 9k

Plot (53 Occurrences)

... The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/plot.htm - 22k

Strip (33 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 31:8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/strip.htm - 18k

Achish (20 Occurrences)

... A year later, when the Philistines invaded the land of Israel, in the campaign which ended so disastrously for Saul (1 Samuel 31), Achish wished David to ... biblethesaurus.org/a/achish.htm - 16k

Camps (33 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 17:1 And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which 'is' to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in ... biblethesaurus.org/c/camps.htm - 16k

Asketh (40 Occurrences)

... seventy and seven men. (YLT). 1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asketh of God, 'Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into ... biblethesaurus.org/a/asketh.htm - 18k

Collected (55 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines collected their armies to battle, and were assembled at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and encamped between Shochoh and ... biblethesaurus.org/c/collected.htm - 23k

Philistine (63 Occurrences)

... 4. (a.) of or pertaining to the Philistines. ... Judges 14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philistine.htm - 29k

Deli'lah (6 Occurrences)

... Judges 16:12 So Deli'lah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in wait were in an ... biblethesaurus.org/d/deli'lah.htm - 8k

Malki-shua (5 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/malki-shua.htm - 7k

Malchi-shua (5 Occurrences)

... He was slain by the Philistines with his brothers at the battle of Gilboa (1 Chronicles 10:2 1 Samuel 31:2). Multi-Version Concordance ... biblethesaurus.org/m/malchi-shua.htm - 8k

Metheg-ammah (1 Occurrence)

... Bridle of the mother, a figurative name for a chief city, as in 2 Samuel 8:1, "David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines" (RV, "took the ... biblethesaurus.org/m/metheg-ammah.htm - 8k

Methegammah (1 Occurrence)

... Bridle of the mother, a figurative name for a chief city, as in 2 Samuel 8:1, "David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines" (RV, "took the ... biblethesaurus.org/m/methegammah.htm - 8k

Mal'chishu'a (5 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mal'chishu'a.htm - 7k

Pursuing (50 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place. (See NAS RSV NIV). ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pursuing.htm - 21k

Bethcar (1 Occurrence)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Sheep-house, a place to which the Israelites pursued the Philistines west from Mizpeh (1 Samuel 7:11). Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bethcar.htm - 7k

Beth-car (1 Occurrence)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Sheep-house, a place to which the Israelites pursued the Philistines west from Mizpeh (1 Samuel 7:11). Int. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beth-car.htm - 7k

Abin'adab (10 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abin'adab.htm - 9k

Aijalon (10 Occurrences)

... Here Saul and Jonathan won a great victory over the Philistines (1 Samuel 14:31). At one time it was held by the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:13). ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aijalon.htm - 11k

Shunem (3 Occurrences)

... places, a little village in the tribe of Issachar, to the north of Jezreel and south of Mount Gilboa (Joshua 19:18), where the Philistines encamped when they ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shunem.htm - 10k

Shamgar (2 Occurrences)

... The Philistines from the maritime plain had made incursions into the Hebrew upland for the purposes of plunder, when one of this name, the son of Anath ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shamgar.htm - 9k

Stronghold (68 Occurrences)

... 2 Samuel 5:17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and ... biblethesaurus.org/s/stronghold.htm - 25k

Son-in-law (14 Occurrences)

... Judges 15:6 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 ... biblethesaurus.org/s/son-in-law.htm - 11k

Shammah (8 Occurrences)

... Together with his two other brothers he fought under Saul in the campaign against the Philistines and was with the army in the valley of Elah when David slew ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shammah.htm - 13k

Defeated (88 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 4:2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of ... biblethesaurus.org/d/defeated.htm - 32k

Deserted (54 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the ... biblethesaurus.org/d/deserted.htm - 22k

Bene-ammon (44 Occurrences)

... and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the Bene-Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsake ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bene-ammon.htm - 20k

Station (78 Occurrences)

... before your eyes; (YLT). 1 Samuel 13:23 And the station of the Philistines goeth out unto the passage of Michmash. (YLT). 1 Samuel 14 ... biblethesaurus.org/s/station.htm - 33k

Adullam (10 Occurrences)

... "And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in ... biblethesaurus.org/a/adullam.htm - 16k

Princes (324 Occurrences)

... Sihor which 'is' on the front of Egypt, and unto the border of Ekron northward, to the Canaanite it is reckoned, five princes of the Philistines, the Gazathite ... biblethesaurus.org/p/princes.htm - 40k

Pitched (101 Occurrences)

... Israel. (KJV JPS). Judges 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. (KJV JPS). Judges ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pitched.htm - 33k

Private (32 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that ... biblethesaurus.org/p/private.htm - 17k

Daughter-towns (17 Occurrences)

... 1 Chronicles 18:1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the ... biblethesaurus.org/d/daughter-towns.htm - 12k

Marching (17 Occurrences)

... (See NAS). 1 Samuel 29:2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/marching.htm - 12k

Mice (5 Occurrences)

... 29), in the account of the golden mice and tumors (the King James Version and the American Revised Version margin "emerods") sent by the Philistines (1 Samuel 6 ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mice.htm - 10k

Merab (4 Occurrences)

... Saul also feared David (1 Samuel 18:12), and this led him to incite the youth to more dangerous deeds of valor against the Philistines by a renewed promise of ... biblethesaurus.org/m/merab.htm - 11k

Pas (2 Occurrences)

... 23:9 After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pas.htm - 7k

Pas-dammim (2 Occurrences)

... 23:9 After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pas-dammim.htm - 7k

Parcel (10 Occurrences)

... 1 Chronicles 11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and ... biblethesaurus.org/p/parcel.htm - 11k

Bethshan (3 Occurrences)

... They doubtless were in league with the Philistines who after Israel's defeat on Gilboa exposed the bodies of Saul and his sons on the wall of the city (1 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bethshan.htm - 9k

Beth-shan (3 Occurrences)

... They doubtless were in league with the Philistines who after Israel's defeat on Gilboa exposed the bodies of Saul and his sons on the wall of the city (1 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/beth-shan.htm - 9k

Casluhim (2 Occurrences)

... From them, it is said, sprang the PHILISTINES, which see. ... Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/casluhim.htm - 7k

Camping (7 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 29:1 And the Philistines gather all their camps to Aphek, and the Israelites are encamping at a fountain which 'is' in Jezreel, (Root in YLT NAS). ... biblethesaurus.org/c/camping.htm - 8k

Champion (7 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 17:4 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/champion.htm - 9k

Arabians (8 Occurrences)

... 2 Chronicles 17:11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven ... biblethesaurus.org/a/arabians.htm - 9k

Avenged (34 Occurrences)

... 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 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/avenged.htm - 17k

Abim'elech (58 Occurrences)

... 21:32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abim'elech.htm - 22k

Anymore (47 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 7:13 And the Philistines are humbled, and have not added any more to come into the border of Israel, and the hand of Jehovah is on the Philistines all ... biblethesaurus.org/a/anymore.htm - 20k

Ally (5 Occurrences)

... 6 For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with what comes from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally ... biblethesaurus.org/a/ally.htm - 8k

Arabs (7 Occurrences)

... 2 Chronicles 17:11 And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and ... biblethesaurus.org/a/arabs.htm - 8k

Sea-land (5 Occurrences)

... Jeremiah 47:4 Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sea-land.htm - 7k

Soco (3 Occurrences)

... (Joshua 15:35); the Philistines "gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah" (1 Samuel 17:1); it is mentioned ... biblethesaurus.org/s/soco.htm - 10k

Smith (7 Occurrences)

... The Hebrews were not permitted by the Philistines in the days of Samuel to have a smith amongst them, lest they should make them swords and spears (1 Samuel 13 ... biblethesaurus.org/s/smith.htm - 9k

Socho (1 Occurrence)

... Sho'co (2 Chronicles 11:7; RV, Soco), Sho'cho (2 Chronicles 28:18; RV, Soco), a city in the plain or lowland of Judah, where the Philistines encamped when they ... biblethesaurus.org/s/socho.htm - 8k

Shaaraim (3 Occurrences)

... in the Shephelah or "lowland" of Judah mentioned (Joshua 15:36) in close association with Socoh and Azekah; the vanquished army of the Philistines passed a ... biblethesaurus.org/s/shaaraim.htm - 9k

Stationed (49 Occurrences)

... 1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan made an attack on the armed force of the Philistines stationed at Gibeah; and news was given to the Philistines that the Hebrews ... biblethesaurus.org/s/stationed.htm - 22k

Saveth (36 Occurrences)

... Judges 3:31 And after him hath been Shamgar son of Anath, and he smiteth the Philistines -- six hundred men -- with an ox-goad, and he saveth -- he also ... biblethesaurus.org/s/saveth.htm - 16k

Spoiling (20 Occurrences)

... (KJV ASV). 1 Samuel 23:1 And they declare to David, saying, 'Lo, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are spoiling the threshing-floors.' (YLT) ... biblethesaurus.org/s/spoiling.htm - 12k

Socoh (4 Occurrences)

... (Joshua 15:35); the Philistines "gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah" (1 Samuel 17:1); it is mentioned ... biblethesaurus.org/s/socoh.htm - 10k