Pelethites

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pelethites
     mentioned always along with the Cherethites, and only in the
     time of David. The word probably means "runners" or "couriers,"
     and may denote that while forming part of David's bodyguard,
     they were also sometimes employed as couriers (2 Sam. 8:18;
     20:7, 23;1 Kings 1:38, 44; 1 Chr. 18:17). Some, however, think


     that these are the names simply of two Philistine tribes from
     which David selected his body-guard. They are mentioned along
     with the Gittites (2 Sam. 15:18), another body of foreign troops
     whom David gathered round him.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Pelethites, judges; destroyers