How to Pronounce Cherethites
CHAIR-eh-thites
Cherethites is pronounced CHAIR-eh-thites (ˈtʃɛrɛθaɪts): three syllables, stress on the first.
What is Cherethites?
(executioners) and of King David. (2 Samuel 8:18; 15:18; 20:7,23; 1 Kings 1:38,44; 1 Chronicles 18:17) It is plain that these royal guards were employed as executioners., (2 Kings 11:4) and as couriers, (1 Kings 14:27) But it has been conjectured that they may have been foreign mercenaries, and therefore probably Philistines, of which name Pelethites may be only another form.
Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.
Found in Scripture
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