וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים

   u-fe-lish-TIM

   and Philistines
2. clause🔊 וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים נֶאֶסְפ֣וּ לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֤לֶף רֶ֙כֶב֙ וְשֵׁ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ פָּרָשִׁ֔ים וְעָ֕ם כַּח֛וֹל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־שְׂפַֽת־הַיָּ֖ם לָרֹ֑ב

   u-fe-lish-TIM ne-es-fe-U le-hil-la-KHEM im-yis-ra-EL she-lo-SHIM E-lef RE-khev ve-SHE-shet a-la-FIM pa-ra-SHIM ve-AM ka-KHOL a-SHER al-se-FAT-ha-YAM la-ROV

   and Philistines were gathered to fight with Israel thirty thousand chariotry and six thousands horsemen and people like the sand which upon the lip of the sea for abundance
3. sentence🔊 וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֞ים נֶאֶסְפ֣וּ לְהִלָּחֵ֣ם עִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים אֶ֤לֶף רֶ֙כֶב֙ וְשֵׁ֤שֶׁת אֲלָפִים֙ פָּרָשִׁ֔ים וְעָ֕ם כַּח֛וֹל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־שְׂפַֽת־הַיָּ֖ם לָרֹ֑ב וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְמִכְמָ֔שׂ קִדְמַ֖ת בֵּ֥ית אָֽוֶן׃

   u-fe-lish-TIM ne-es-fe-U le-hil-la-KHEM im-yis-ra-EL she-lo-SHIM E-lef RE-khev ve-SHE-shet a-la-FIM pa-ra-SHIM ve-AM ka-KHOL a-SHER al-se-FAT-ha-YAM la-ROV va-ya-a-LU va-ya-kha-NU be-mikh-MAS kid-MAT BET A-ven

   and Philistines were gathered to fight with Israel thirty thousand chariotry and six thousands horsemen and people like the sand which upon the lip of the sea for abundance and they went up and they encamped in Michmash east of house of Aven

Exegesis

The vav-conjunction prefixes the noun u'pelishtim {וּפְלִשְׁתִּים | ū-phe-lish-tîm} ‘and the Philistines’ as the subject, followed by the Niphal perfect verb ne'esfu {נֶאֶסְפוּ | ne-ʾes-pû} ‘were gathered’.

Root and etymology

p-l-sh🔊 פ־ל־שpe–lamed–shin

“invader”