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HebrewH6432Noun

פְּלֵתִי

pe.le.ti

7Occurrences
H6432Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a courier (collectively) or official messenger

from the same form as H6431 (פֶּלֶת);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Pelath(?), first mentioned at § Pelethites = "couriers" 1) a collective name for the guardsmen of a) probably descendants of an unknown person, perhaps Philistine mercenaries

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--TG

Full Description

N:N--TG

Occurrences

פְּלֵתִי appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
4
1 Kings
2
1 Chronicles
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 18:17BSB

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;and David’s sons were chief officials at the king’s side.

1 Kings 1:38BSB

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.

1 Kings 1:44BSB

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.

2 Samuel 15:18BSB

and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

2 Samuel 20:7BSB

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.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.