falling; secret
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
PELONITE.A designation applied to two of Davids heroes (1Ch_11:27; 1Ch_11:35). For the former see Paltite. In the second case Pelonite is prob. a scribal error for Gilonite.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Ch_11:27; 1Ch_27:10. (See PALTITE; HELEZ.) A designation from the place of birth or residence. For "Ahijah the Pelonite" (1Ch_11:36) 2Sa_23:34 has "Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Shilohite," the Chronicles reading is probably a corruption of text.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
pel?ṓ-nı̄t, pē?lṓ-nı̄t, pḗ-lō?nı̄t (פּלוני, pelōnı̄, a place-name): Two of David's heroes are thus described: (1) ?Helez the Pelonite? (1Ch_11:27) (see PALTITE); and (2) ?Ahijah the Pelonite? (1Ch_11:36).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Pelonite
(Heb. with the art. hap-Peloni', הִפְּלוֹנַי, as if from a place or man Pelon. otherwise unknown; Sept. n ὁ Φελωνί v. r. ὁ Φαλλωνί, 1Ch_11:27; ὁ Φελλωνί, 1Ch_11:36; ὁ ἐκ Φαλλοῦς, 1Ch_27:10; Vulg. Phalonites, Phelonites, Phallonites). Two of David's mighty men, Helez and Ahijah, are called Pelonites (1Ch_11:27; 1Ch_11:36). From 1Ch_27:10 it appears that the former was of the tribe of Ephraim, and Pelonite would therefore be an appellation derived from his place of birth or residence. But in the Targum of rabbi Joseph it is evidently regarded as a patronymic, and is rendered in the last-mentioned passage of the seed of Pelan. In the list of 2 Samuel 23 Helez is called (2Sa_23:26) the Paltite, that is, as Bertheau (on 1 Chronicles 11) conjectures, of Beth-Palet, or Beth-Phelet, in the south of Judah. But it seems probable that Pelonite is the correct reading. SEE PALTITE. Ahijah the Pelonite appears in 2Sa_23:34 as Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, of which the former is a corruption; Ahijah forming the first part of Ahithophel, annd Pelonite and Gilonite differing only by פand ג- If we follow the Sept. of 1 Chronicles 27, the place from which Helez took his name would be of the form Phallu, but there is no trace of it elsewhere, and the Sept. must have had a differently pointed text. In Heb. פְּלנַי, peloni, as an appellative, corresponds to the Greek ὁ δεῖνα, such a one: it still exists in Arabic and in the Spanish Don Fulano, Mr. So-and-so.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.