What Is Philistine in the Bible?
Person
A people who lived by the sea, to the southwest of Israel, and who often made war on it. Goliath was a Philistine.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 17:4; Judges 13:1
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:
Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “filisteo”; 1 Samuel 17:4