Goliath (;
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).