Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10760 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

philistimsPhilistines

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 2,851 times in 661 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,851 of 2,853)
Reach if approved: ~3,001 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: philistines
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,856 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,851 changes in 661 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,851)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of Canaan. Yea, this very word is twice vsed in that exhortation which the PhilistimsPhilistines vse to encourage one another, when they heard that the Arke of the LORD …
With rule
… of Canaan. Yea, this very word is twice vsed in that exhortation which the PhilistimsPhilistines vse to encourage one another, when they heard that the Arke of the LORD …
William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wonder why God should plague the PhilistimsPhilistines for it; for I am perswaded the PhilistimsPhilistines made account they had done the Arke the greatest honour that they could imagine …
With rule
… wonder why God should plague the PhilistimsPhilistines for it; for I am perswaded the PhilistimsPhilistines made account they had done the Arke the greatest honour that they could imagine …
Walter Balcanquhall · The Honor of Christian Churches · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would conſecrate ſomething to their gods. If thou wilt not be before hand with PhiliſtimsPhilistines to offer in thy miſerie, yet at leaſt returne with the Samaritan, being recovered …
With rule
… would conſecrate ſomething to their gods. If thou wilt not be before hand with PhiliſtimsPhilistines to offer in thy miſerie, yet at leaſt returne with the Samaritan, being recovered …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was never ſuch a thing before, therefore ſay they, ſtrengthen your hand, O yee PhiliſtimsPhilistines, and quit your ſelves, that yee be not ſervants to the Hebrewes. The Arke …
With rule
… was never ſuch a thing before, therefore ſay they, ſtrengthen your hand, O yee PhiliſtimsPhilistines, and quit your ſelves, that yee be not ſervants to the Hebrewes. The Arke …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a moſt glorious vertue, when he pulled the houſe vpon his owne and the PhilistimsPhilistines heades. Here the ſelfe ſame act To kill ones ſelfe is of a diuers …
With rule
… a moſt glorious vertue, when he pulled the houſe vpon his owne and the PhilistimsPhilistines heades. Here the ſelfe ſame act To kill ones ſelfe is of a diuers …
Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as great a deſpite vnto Gods people, as was done vnto Iſaac by the PhiliſtimsPhilistines, in ſtopping vp all the welles which Abraham had digged open. What though in …
With rule
… as great a deſpite vnto Gods people, as was done vnto Iſaac by the PhiliſtimsPhilistines, in ſtopping vp all the welles which Abraham had digged open. What though in …
Paul Baynes · Epitome of Mans Misery and Delivery · Open in the reader
Printed
… this we haue had almoſt one hundred yeres experience, that as Dagon of the PhiliſtimsPhilistines could not ſtand before the arke of God: So all the whooriſh deuiſes of …
With rule
… this we haue had almoſt one hundred yeres experience, that as Dagon of the PhiliſtimsPhilistines could not ſtand before the arke of God: So all the whooriſh deuiſes of …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Heretickes did not pretende Scripture, they could not greatlie deceiue; no more than the PhilistimsPhilistines had declared Samsons Riddle, if they had not plowed with his Heyfer. And this …
With rule
… Heretickes did not pretende Scripture, they could not greatlie deceiue; no more than the PhilistimsPhilistines had declared Samsons Riddle, if they had not plowed with his Heyfer. And this …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

the Time of Finding A33242

Printed
… paw of the Bear, (King and Biſhops;) he will deliver them from all PROƲD PHILISTIMSPHILISTINES, that defie the Iſrael of God; yea, and that ſpeedily.
With rule
… paw of the Bear, (King and Biſhops;) he will deliver them from all PROƲD PHILISTIMSPHILISTINES, that defie the Iſrael of God; yea, and that ſpeedily.
John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 82 · Open in the reader