2Sa_23:26. In 1Ch_11:27 "Pelonite," 1Ch_27:10.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
pal?tı̄t (פּלטי, palṭı̄ (as Palti); The Septuagint has: Codex Vaticanus Κελωθεί, Kelōthei; Codex Alexandrinus Φελλωνεί, Phellōneı́): The description occurs but once in this form and is then applied to Helez, one of David's 30 valiant men (2Sa_23:26). Helez' name, however, occurs in 1Ch_11:27 and 1Ch_27:10 as the ?Pelonite.? Doubtless there is some confusion of words. The word may be given as a patronymic of Palti, or it may designate a native of the village of Beth-pelet mentioned in Jos_15:27 and Neh_11:26 as being in Lower Judah. Helez, however, is described as ?of the children of Ephraim? in 1Ch_27:10.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Paltite
(Heb. Palti', פִּלְטַי, same as Palti [q.v.]; Sept. Φαλτί), the Gentile name of Helez, one of David's captains (2Sa_23:26); the same name, probably, as PELONITE SEE PELONITE (q.v.) in the parallel passage ( Chronicles 11:27), and such seems to have been the reading followed by the Alex. MS. in 2 Samuel. The Peshito-Syriac, however, supports the Hebrew, Cholots of Pelat. But in 1Ch_27:10, Helez the Pelonite, of the tribe of Ephraim is again mentioned as captain of 24,000 men of David's army for the seventh month, and the balance of evidence therefore inclines to Pelonite as the true reading. The variation arose from a confusion between the letters ונ and ט. In the Syriac of 1 Chronicles both readings are combined, and Helez is described as of Palton.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.