One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Philistine. Every Philistine in the Bible
person
Philistine
פְּלִשְׁתִּי
The Philistines, a people group descended from Mizraim, the son of Ham, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis and 1 Chronicles.
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Genesis 10:14
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:12
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Philistine?
The Philistines are mentioned in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1Chronicles 1, which record the descendants of Noah's sons after the flood. In these passages, the Philistines are listed as descendants of Mizraim, the son of Ham (Gen.10.14; 1Ch.1.12). This suggests that the Philistines were related to the Egyptians and other Hamitic peoples. The Table of Nations provides a general overview of the geographic distribution and ethnic relationships of the ancient world, but it does not give specific details about the Philistines' history or culture. Throughout the Old Testament, the Philistines are portrayed as one of the main enemies of Israel, occupying the coastal plain of Canaan and engaging in numerous conflicts with the Israelites during the period of the judges and the early monarchy.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Philistine is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Genesis1 verse
1 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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