Philistine thus became the name of contempt applied by the cultured to those whom they considered beneath them in intellect and taste, and was first so used in English by Carlyle, and Matthew Arnold (Essays in Criticism, Heinrich Heine, 1865) gave the word its vogue and its final connotation,
The Greeks used it loosely of various parts of the shores of the Euxine, and the term did not get a definite connotation till after the establishment of the kingdom founded beyond the Halys during the troubled period following the death of Alexander the Great, about 301 B.C., by Mithradates I., Ktis
The Hebrew and Greek terms, however, lost the connotation of a change of residence, and both ger and proselyte came to apply to a convert without regard to his nationality.
connotation הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד