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n. (plural of philistine English)
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The Philistines (, , , or ; , Plištim) were a people described in the Biblical canon of Judaism and Christianity. Rabbinic sources state that the Philistines of Genesis were different people from the Philistines of the Deuteronomistic history books. The latter describe the land of the Philistines as a pentapolis in southwestern Levant comprising the five city-states of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, from Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north. This description portrays them at one period of time as among the Kingdom of Israel's most dangerous enemies. In contrast, the canon of Eastern Christianity, the LXX, uses the term "allophuloi" instead of "philistines", which means simply "other nations".
Several Biblical passages connect the Philistines to other biblical groups such as Caphtorim and the Cherethites and Pelethites, which have both been identified with Crete and which has led to the tradition of an Aegean origin, although this theory has been disputed. In 2016, the discovery of a huge Philistine cemetery, containing more than 150 burials, seems to point toward an Aegean origin of the Philistines. Genetic testing of the human remains will provide further information.
The Philistines were a people who once occupied the south-western part of Canaan.
Philistines or philistine may also refer to:
- Residents of Palestine (southern Syria), sometimes referred to as 'Philistines' by British writers of the 18th and very early 19th century
- philistine, a derogatory term used to describe a person deficient in the liberal arts culture
- An elite unit of the South African Defence Force
- The Philistines, a 1901 play by Maxim Gorky
- The Philistine (magazine) A periodical that was written, edited, and published by Elbert Hubbard
Usage examples of "philistines".
Or, handing him over to the police of the Philistines, you may put it, that a habit of assorting spices will render an earnest simplicity distasteful.
A considerable part of his letters was always occupied with lamentation over the cursed fate that bound him to the Philistines, though he took care to repeat that this was the result of his own choice, and that he blamed no one--unless it were his gross-minded step-father, who had driven him to such an alternative.
Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn.
I say it, I, old hermit among the philistines, and my peace rests upon this knowledge.
The type of men which my father called philistines has this common characteristic, that for all wonders and mysteries they forthwith find a convenient explanation.
Nature as much as they do, to bring all that is knowable into her domain and yet to judge of some of her products, as let us say: baboons, tyrants, grand inquisitors, drunkards, philistines, modern buildings and bad verses, in an ethically and aesthetically disapproving sense and, moreover, to call this opinion natural.