The Philistines appear in four different texts from the time of the New Kingdom under the name Peleset.

The southern highlands of the region were later named Judea after the kingdom of Judah, while the coastal region came to be known as Παλαιστίνη in Greek ( Latin Palaestina ), from the name of the Philistines.

Biblical scholars regard this as an eponym rather than an individual, and it is thought possible that the name is a corruption of Halusah ; with the identification of Ziklag as Haluza, this suggests that Ziklag was the original base from which the Philistines captured the remainder of their territory.

Its earlier name was " Way of the Philistines ", a reference to a passageway through the Philistine Plain ( which today consists of Israel's southern coastal plain and the Gaza Strip ).

The name " Gilboa " is from Mount Gilboa, a biblical site in Israel, where King Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines, and Saul took his own life ( 1 Samuel 31: 4 )

In Gaza the name was introduced later by the Philistines in 1200 BC.

It was " a reproach " for an Israelite to be uncircumcised () The name arelim ( uncircumcised ) became an opprobrious term, especially a pejorative name for the Philistines, who might have been of Greek origin, in the context of the fierce wars recounted in the Book of Samuel (,.

Among the Sea peoples identified in Egyptian records are the Ekwesh, a group of Bronze Age Greeks ( Achaeans ); Teresh, Tyrrhenians, ancestors of the Etruscans ; Luka, an Anatolian people of the Aegean ( their name survives in the region of Lycia ); Sherden, probably Sardinians ; Shekelesh, probably the Italic tribe called Siculi ; Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines, who might have come from Crete and were with the Tekrur ( possibly Greek Teucrians ) the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples known to have settled permanently in the Levant.

Pleshet is the Hebrew name for what might otherwise be called the " land of the Philistines " according to the Hebrew Bible ( see Book of Genesis 21: 32, Exodus 13: 17, 1 Samuel 27: 1, Joel 3: 4 ).

It tells how Jonathan and his armor-bearer crossed over during the night ‘ to the Philistines ’ garrison ’ on the other side, and how they passed two sharp rocks: ‘ there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other Seneh .’ They clambered up the cliff and overpowered the garrison ‘ within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plough .’ The main body of the enemy awakened by the mêlée thought they were surrounded by Saul ’ s troops and ‘ melted away and they went on beating down one another .’

The site is disputed ; the common opinion in the early 20th century was that the town lay east of the Jordan and that the name is preserved in the modern Fek, three miles east of the Sea of Galilee, on the edge of the plain of Jordan by the Golan Heights ; later opinion, however, has focused on regarding this Aphek as the same as the scene of two battles against the Philistines mentioned by the Bible-the supposition being that the Syrians were invading Israel from the western side as being the most vulnerable.

stone of help ), is the name of a location that is mentioned by the Books of Samuel as the scene of battles between the Israelites and Philistines.

The word Agonistes (), found as an epithet following a person's name, means “ the struggler ” or “ the combatant .” It is most often an allusion to John Milton ’ s, " himself a Christian agonist ", 1671 verse tragedy Samson Agonistes, which recounts the end of Samson's life, when he is a blind captive of the Philistines, described as being “ Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves ”.

It is possible that the name of the mountain is indicative of this, as it is thought that Gerizim may mean mountain of the Gerizites, a tribe in the vicinity of the Philistines that, according to the Hebrew Bible, was conquered by David.

Jacob Lassner and Selwyn Ilan Troen offer a different view, writing that Jund Filastin, the full name for the administrative province under the rule of the Arab caliphates, was traced by Muslim geographers back to the Philistines of the Bible.

Though Goliath derives his name from the Biblical villain Goliath, a giant warrior for the Philistines, the two characters otherwise have nothing in common.

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Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

Architects in the US who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, are elected Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and can write FAIA after their name.

Architects in Canada who have made outstanding contributions to the profession through contribution to research, scholarship, public service or professional standing to the good of architecture in Canada, or elsewhere, may be recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and can write FRAIC after their name.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

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In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The resentment among Democratic organization leaders to the reported Wagner plan was directed particularly at the Mayor's efforts to name his own running mates without consulting the leaders.

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