Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50403 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

philistiansPhilistines

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

Puritas changed it: 161 times in 69 works
Consistency: 99.3% (161 of 162)
Reach if approved: ~170 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 162 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (161 changes in 69 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 161)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Greeke, Evites: these were the ancient inhabitants of the PhilistiansPhilistines countrey, Ios. 13. 3. Caphthorims] the PhilistiansPhilistines: see Gen. 10. 14. Though Israel fought the battels of the Lord, and had their limits …
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… Greeke, Evites: these were the ancient inhabitants of the PhilistiansPhilistines countrey, Ios. 13. 3. Caphthorims] the PhilistiansPhilistines: see Gen. 10. 14. Though Israel fought the battels of the Lord, and had their limits …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and kill moe of our enemies, then the death of Sampſon killed of the PhiliſtiansPhilistines: we ſee what happened in the tymes of the Apoſtles and Martyrs; if they …
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… and kill moe of our enemies, then the death of Sampſon killed of the PhiliſtiansPhilistines: we ſee what happened in the tymes of the Apoſtles and Martyrs; if they …
Pierre Viret · Epistle to the Faithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… all my people, that thou muſt goe to take a Wife of the vncircumciſed PhiliſtiansPhilistines? yet when hee ſaw that his affection was ſetled on her, he was content …
With rule
… all my people, that thou muſt goe to take a Wife of the vncircumciſed PhiliſtiansPhilistines? yet when hee ſaw that his affection was ſetled on her, he was content …
Thomas Carter · Christian Commonwealth · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lands that were round about Iuda, that they ſhould not fight againſt Iehoſhaphat. The PhiliſtiansPhilistines alſo brought tribute, and the Arabians flocks, 2 Chro. 17. 10. 11. the Moabites made war againſt them …
With rule
… lands that were round about Iuda, that they ſhould not fight againſt Iehoſhaphat. The PhiliſtiansPhilistines alſo brought tribute, and the Arabians flocks, 2 Chro. 17. 10. 11. the Moabites made war againſt them …
Thomas Brightman · A Commentary on the Song of Solomon · p. 990 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cut off. Where Baldneſs, and Silence are put for Sadneſs and Grief in the PhiliſtiansPhilistines. Again Lament. 2.10. The elders of the Daughters of Sion, ſet upon the Ground and …
With rule
… Cut off. Where Baldneſs, and Silence are put for Sadneſs and Grief in the PhiliſtiansPhilistines. Again Lament. 2.10. The elders of the Daughters of Sion, ſet upon the Ground and …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hell fire? Yea, sodaynly will the Lord bryng downe the glory of the proud PhilistiansPhilistines, by the handes of hys seruaunt Dauid. Theyr strength is in speare & shield, but …
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… hell fire? Yea, sodaynly will the Lord bryng downe the glory of the proud PhilistiansPhilistines, by the handes of hys seruaunt Dauid. Theyr strength is in speare & shield, but …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1699 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Temple for about five hundred years, except that time it was in the PhiliſtiansPhilistines hands.
With rule
… the Temple for about five hundred years, except that time it was in the PhiliſtiansPhilistines hands.
Henry Danvers · The City of God · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in a newe cart, which he neuer heard of? except it were of the PhilistiansPhilistines that sent home the arke in a cart. And euen so it is like …
With rule
… in a newe cart, which he neuer heard of? except it were of the PhilistiansPhilistines that sent home the arke in a cart. And euen so it is like …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 455 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.