 The Targum, and Syriac Peshitta, regarding the phrase as an appelative, render it "bowmen and slingers", Origen's Hexapla rendered it "corrupted people", while comparatively more recently Gesenius proposed that it should be rendered "executioners and runners".Most modern scholars, however, do not believe the phrase to be appellative.The Septuagint translates "Cherethite" as "Cretans" where it occurs in the writings of the literary prophets, paralleling an ancient tradition that the origin of the people living in Roman Palestine (which was named after the Philistines) had also come from Crete; the latter tradition is connected to that which concerns whether the Philistines originated from Caphtor, an ambiguous location that most modern scholars believe was probably identical to Crete.