Pathrusim

Pathrusim appears in scripture as one of the peoples descended from Mizraim, listed in the Table of Nations and again in the Chronicler's parallel genealogy. The name carries no narrative — it surfaces only in two enumerations of who came from whom — but its placement is consistent: alongside Casluhim and Caphtorim, in the line that runs out toward the Philistines.

In the Table of Nations

Genesis lists Pathrusim in the Mizraim branch of Ham's descendants: "and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim" (Genesis 10:14). The parenthetical is attached to Casluhim in this verse — it is from Casluhim that the Philistines went forth — and Pathrusim and Caphtorim sit on either side of that note in the same series.

In the Chronicler's Genealogy

The parallel comes at the head of 1 Chronicles, where the same Mizraim line is laid out. Here the wording shifts: "and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from where the Philistines and Caphtorim came" (1 Chronicles 1:12). The relative clause now collects both the Philistines and Caphtorim under "from where," while Pathrusim is listed immediately before Casluhim. The two passages place Pathrusim in the same neighborhood — among the Mizraim descendants, beside Casluhim, in the run of names from which the Philistines emerge.