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Philistia was a
confederation of five main
cities or
pentapolis in the
Southwest Levant, made up of prin****lly Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and...
- the Iron Age in a
confederation of city-states
generally referred to as
Philistia.
There is
compelling evidence to
suggest that the
Philistines originated...
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Philistine pentapolis during the Iron Age. It was
located in
northeastern Philistia,
close to the
border with Judah. Gath is
often mentioned in the Hebrew...
- The God on the
Winged Wheel coin,
minted in Gaza City,
southern Philistia,
during the
Persian period of the 4th
century BCE. It
possibly represents Yahweh...
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Avvim (Hebrew: עַוִּים, Modern: ʿAvvīm, Tiberian: ʿAwwīm) or
Avvites of
Philistia in the Old
Testament were a
people dwelling in Hazerim, or "the villages"...
- from Arabic. Persian: فلسطین (Felestin) Latin: Palæstina - same word as
Philistia Turkish:
Filistin An
early version of the name
Palestine was
first recorded...
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plant and
tossed away'. "Thrust": "pierced" Do not rejoice, all you of
Philistia,
Because the rod that
struck you is broken; For out of the serpent's roots...
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calls the area Palaistine,
referring to the
territory previously held by
Philistia, a
state that
existed in that area from the 12th to the 7th
century BCE...
- languages,
Akkadian Palaštu (variant Pilištu) is used of 7th-century
Philistia and its, by then, four city states.
Biblical Hebrew's
cognate word Plištim...
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chapter contains the
oracles against four nations: Ammon, Moab, Edom, and
Philistia. The
prophecies of God's
vengeance against these and
other foreign nations...
