Philistine language

Philistine
Native toPhilistia
EthnicityPhilistines
Extinctc. 9th century BC
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

The Philistine language (/ˈfɪləstn, ˈfɪləstn, fəˈlɪstən, fəˈlɪstn/)[1] is the extinct language of the Philistines. Very little is known about the language, of which a handful of words survived as cultural loanwords in Biblical Hebrew, describing specifically Philistine institutions, like the seranim, the "lords" of the Philistine five cities ("Pentapolis"),[2] or the ’argáz receptacle, which occurs in 1 Samuel 6 and nowhere else,[3] or the title padî.[4]

  1. ^ "Definition of Philistines | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.
  2. ^ The term is used as a military rank in contemporary Israel, equivalent to captain.
  3. ^ E. Sapir, "Hebrew 'argáz, a Philistine Word," Journal of the American Oriental Society (1936:272–281), found it to signify the box of a cart "a presumably non-Semitic word" (p. 274).
  4. ^ Sapir 1936:279 note 23

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