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Philistine

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Philistine

Member of a seafaring people of non-Semitic origin who founded city-states on the Palestinian coastal plain in the 12th century BC, adopting a Semitic language and religion.

At war with the Israelites in the 11th–10th centuries BC, they were largely absorbed into the kingdom of Israel under King David, about 1000 BC, and later came under Assyrian rule.



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"Let us not question the motives of the Philistine," interrupted Abel-Phittim' "for to-day we profit for the first time by his avarice or by his generosity; but rather let us hurry to the ramparts, lest offerings should be wanting for that altar whose fire the rains of heaven can not extinguish, and whose pillars of smoke no tempest can turn aside.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
It is their serious fidelity which gives them a value unique in literature, and which if it were carefully analyzed would afford a principle of the same quality in an author who was undoubtedly one of the finest of artists as well as the most Philistine of men.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Do tell, now, cried Bildad, is this Philistine a regular member of Deacon Deuteronomy's meeting?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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