How many times is Palestine mentioned in the Old Testament?

Answer 1

A:

Palestine is not mentioned by name in the Old Testament. This was a name given to the Levant region by Greek merchants around the middle of the first millennium. They had met the Philistines along the coastal region which they occupied, from around the present city of Tel Aviv all the way to the Egyptian border. Unaware that a different nation - Judah - existed further inland, they termed the entire region 'Palestine'. The Bible does refer to that part of Palestine from the Dead Sea northwards as Canaan, although this also included part of Philistia. The land of the Canaanites, or at least the inland region, was settled by the Hebrew people and was given the names Israel and Judah.