Goliath
![David and Goliath, a colour lithograph by Osmar Schindler (c. 1888)](/Images/godic/202501/15/Osmar_Schindler_David_und_Goliath5705.jpg")
![David hoists the severed head of Goliath as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1866).](/Images/godic/202501/15/071A.David_Slays_Goliath5705.jpg")
![Goliath laughs at David, 1915, by Ilya Repin](/Images/godic/202501/15/David_and_Goliath5705.jpg")
![David with the Head of Goliath, circa 1635, by Andrea Vaccaro](/Images/godic/202501/15/Andrea_Vaccaro_-_David_with_the_Head_of_Goliath5706.jpg")
Goliath (/ɡəˈlaɪəθ/) (Hebrew: גָּלְיָת, Modern Golyat, Tiberian Golyāṯ; Arabic: جالوت, Ǧālūt (Qur'anic term), جليات Ǧulyāt (Christian term)) or Goliath of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines) was a giant Philistine warrior defeated by the young David, the future king of Israel, in the Bible's Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 17).