Hebrew n--tg · H6432
פְּלֵתִי
Pelethipel-ay-thee'
Pelethite
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Pᵉlêthîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6432is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6432
a courier (collectively) or official messenger
The King James renders it: Pelethites.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Pelethi is rendered "Pelethite". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 8:18Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
2 Samuel 8:18וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the Pelethite5
- the Pelethite2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פְּלִשְׁתִּי | Pelishti | Philistine | Uses287 |
| פְּלֵיטָה | peletah | survivor | Uses28 |
| פְּלַח | pelach | to serve | Uses10 |
| פְּלֹנִי | peloni | someone | Uses3 |
| פְּלֻגָּה | peluggah | division | Uses3 |
| פְּלוֹנִי | Peloni | Pelonite | Uses3 |
| פְּלַג | pelag | to divide | Uses1 |
| פְּלַג | pelag | half | Uses1 |
| פְּלָדָה | peladah | iron | Uses1 |
| פְּלַגָּה | pelaggah | stream | Uses1 |
| פְּלֻגָּה | peluggah | division | Uses1 |
| פְּלִילָה | pelilah | judge | Uses1 |
and 2 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י3
- הַפְּלֵתִ֑י1
- הַפְּלֵתִֽי׃1
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֖י1
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֔י1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)5HC/Td/Ngmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)2HTd/Ngmsa
2 Samuel
four uses
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑יvehapeleticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Pelethite
and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
- הַפְּלֵתִ֑יhapeletithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Pelethite
So Joab’s men, along with the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and all the mighty men, marched out of Jerusalem in pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri.
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֖יvehapeleticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Pelethite
Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;
- הַפְּלֵתִֽי׃hapeletithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Pelethite
1 Kings
two uses
Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֔יvehapeleticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Pelethite
And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑יvehapeleticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Pelethite
1 Chronicles
one use
Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.
- וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑יvehapeleticonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Pelethite
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.