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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 Ex. 15: 14, 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 Isa. 14: 29, 31, it is usual now to translate the word PHILISTIA (as in the R.V.), the Hebrew being the same as in Ps. 60: 8; Ps. 87: 4; Ps. 108: 9. See CANAAN and SYRIA.