Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Philistia"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Philistia
=Palestine (q.v.), "the land of the Philistines" (Ps. 60:8;
87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean "the land of
wanderers" or "of strangers."
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Philistia
n : an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine
that was strategically located on a trade route between
Syria and Egypt; important in Biblical times [syn: {Philistia}]
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