For example in the Bible the Holy Land is almost always called the Land of Canaan after the Canaanite peoples who lived there before the Jews although the Jews lived there for 850.

Modern name for palestine. Arab people who call this territory home are known as Palestinians. The modern Palestinian movement has retained this name from the time of the British Protectorate. The origin of this word lies in âœPleshethâ Â This is a name appearing frequently in the Bible and have started being known as âœPhilistineâ in.

The term Palestine is believed to be a derivative of the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet which means migratory The term was used to describe an Aegean people who came to the region in 12th century BCE and conquered the Mediterranean coastline now known as Gaza. This Greek-cum-Latin name for the region was later adopted by the Arabs who conquered the area in the 7th century and thus the Arabic name for the region Falestin was born. Since Palestine included both modern day Israel and Jordan both Arab and Jewish residents of.

In some instances of modern Hebraization the traditional Palestinian Arabic place name was preserved in the modern Hebrew despite there being a different Hebrew tradition regarding the name as in the case of Banias and where in classical Hebrew. For the article summary see Palestine summary. The name Palestine is given to the region spreading from eastern Mediterranean coast to the Jordan Valley to the area covering Galilee Lake in the north and southern Negev Desert.

The word Palestinian was applied to anyone living in that area. The name Palestine or Philistia פלשת and the name Philistine פלשתי are pretty much the same and Philistine literally means One Of Palestine Philistia. After the First World War it became the British-ruled Palestine Mandate reviving the name used in Roman Empire.

The name Palestine was no longer used as the official name of an administrative unit under the Ottomans because they typically named provinces after their capitals. Dore Gold former Israeli Ambassador to the UN explains properly that the Romans and the Arabs today use. In Europe the Latin name Palaestina slowly morphed into the different names for the region in the Romance tongues that arose from Latin such as French and Spanish.

Israel was always the name of the Jewish people but in general the Bible did not always stick to the modern notion that a people and its land have the same name. Nonetheless the old name remained in popular and semi-official use 405 with many examples of its usage in the 16th 17th and 18th centuries surviving. Possibly to avoid confusion or association with irrelevant modern conflicts most modern translations speak of Philistia rather than Palestine.