2. Noun. (plural of philistine) ¹
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Definition of Philistines
1. philistine [n] - See also: philistine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Philistines
Literary usage of Philistines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Founders and Rulers of United Israel: From the Death of Moses to the by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"THE GREAT VICTORY OVER THE philistines Saul chose him three thousand men of ...
Then Jonathan smote the garrison of the philistines that was in Gibeah. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"22, implies that the A wim and the philistines lived alongside each other. ...
7) thus agrees with other information that the philistines were intruders, ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1920)
"And so the philistines and the teachers of English have their disputes and
misunderstandings. But what of the philistines who are found among the teachers ..."
4. Biblical Geography and History by Charles Foster Kent (1911)
"The temerity of his act at first only aroused the curiosity and scorn of the
philistines, so that they allowed him to scale the heights unmolested. ..."
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