Palestina, [Palesti'na] Palestine. [Pal'estine]
The Hebrew word, Pelesheth, occurs but four times, and did not allude to the whole of the land of Canaan, as the name Palestine is now applied; but was restricted to part of the coast of the Mediterranean, occupied by the Philistines. In Exodus 15:14, Exodus 1:15, Palestina, Edom, and Moab are mentioned, and then 'all the inhabitants of Canaan.' In Joel 3:4, Tyre and Sidon are not included in the term. In these passages, and in Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 1:14, it is usual now to translate the word PHILISTIA (as in the R.V.), the Hebrew being the same as in Psalms 60:8; Psalms 87:4; Psalms 108:9. See CANAAN and SYRIA.