◄ 3794. Kitti or Kittiyyi ► |
Lexicon Kitti or Kittiyyi: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Original Word: כִּתִּיםPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: Kitti or Kittiyyi Phonetic Spelling: (kit-tee') Short Definition: Kittim NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused name Definitiona son of Javan, also his desc. and their land NASB TranslationCyprus (3), Kittim (5).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ כִּתִּי] adjective, of a people always plural כִּתִּים כִּתִּיִּים; usually as name, of a people = Cypriotes (compare Phoenician proper name, of a location כת כתי, Citium; on a connection with Kheta, –-t¹, –attê, חִתִּי, see WMMAsien u. Europa,345; — on Citium see CesnolaGyprus 46 ff); — אֶרֶץ כִּתִּים Isaiah 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם Isaiah 23:12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Genesis 10:4 = 1 Chronicles 1:7; וְצִים ׳מִיַּד כ Numbers 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more Generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּים Jeremiah 2:10, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּם Ezekiel 27:6; even of Macedonian Greece, צִיִּים כִּתִּים Daniel 11:30 (only here as adjective, compare Bev) i.e. Grecian ships. כָּתִית see below כתת. כתל (√ of following; compare Arabic  make into firm lumps or blocks, make compact; Frey also bind, imprison,  be joined together).
Strong's Chittim, Kittim Or Kittiyiy {kit-tee-ee'}; patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural); a Kittite or Cypriote; hence, an islander in general, i.e. The Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine -- Chittim, Kittim. |
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