Occurrences
Pᵉlishtîy occurs 287 times in 243 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (8), Exodus (2), Joshua (2), Judges (31), 1 Samuel (125), 2 Samuel (24), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (23), 2 Chronicles (6), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (3), Ezekiel (4), Amos (3), Obadiah (1), Zephaniah (1), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 10:14 — And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים),) and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 21:32 — Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים).
- Genesis 21:34 — And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים)’ land many days.
- Genesis 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים) unto Gerar.
- Genesis 26:8 — And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
- Genesis 26:14 — For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים) envied him.
- Genesis 26:15 — For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- Genesis 26:18 — And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Exodus 13:17 — And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים), although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
- Exodus 23:31 — And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים), and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
- Joshua 13:2 — This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines (הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים), and all Geshuri,
- Joshua 13:3 — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים); the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
- Judges 3:3 — Namely, five lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים), and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
- Judges 3:31 — And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּים֙) six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
- Judges 10:6 — And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים), and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
- Judges 10:7 — And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים), and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
- Judges 10:11 — And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים)?
- Judges 13:1 — And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים) forty years.
- Judges 13:5 — For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים).
- Judges 14:1 — And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּֽים).
- Judges 14:2 — And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים): now therefore get her for me to wife.
- Judges 14:3 — Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines (מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים)? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
- Judges 14:4 — But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines (מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים): for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
- Judges 14:4 — But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים) had dominion over Israel.
- Judges 15:3 — And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines (מִפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים), though I do them a displeasure.
- Judges 15:5 — And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים), and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
- Judges 15:6 — Then the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּים֮) said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 15:6 — Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 15:9 — Then the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- Judges 15:11 — Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
- Judges 15:12 — And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים). And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
- Judges 15:14 — And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines (וּפִלְשִׁתִּ֖ים) shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
- Judges 15:20 — And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים) twenty years.
- Judges 16:5 — And the lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים) came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.
- Judges 16:8 — Then the lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים) brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
- Judges 16:9 — Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים) be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:12 — Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֤ים) be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
- Judges 16:14 — And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים) be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
- 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 (פְלִשְׁתִּ֤ים), saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
- 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 hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
- Judges 16:20 — And she said, The Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֥ים) be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
- Judges 16:21 — But the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֔ים) took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- Judges 16:23 — Then the lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֗ים) gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- Judges 16:27 — Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים) were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
- Judges 16:28 — And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines (מִפְּלִשְׁתִּֽים) for my two eyes.
- Judges 16:30 — And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּים֒). And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
- 1 Samuel 4:1 — And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines (פְּלִשְׁתִּ֜ים) to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
- 1 Samuel 4:1 — And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines (וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים) pitched in Aphek.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 — And the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֜ים) put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 — And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines (פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים): and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.