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כִּתִּי

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Cyprus

§ Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers" a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[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 Isa 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם vIsa 23:12 כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Gen 10:4 = 1Chr 1:7 וְצִים ׳מִיַּד כ Num 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּים Jer 2:10, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּם Ezek 27:6 even of Macedonian Greece, צִיִּים כִּתִּים Dan 11:30 (only here as adjective, compare Bev) i.e. Grecian ships.


כָּתִית see below כתת.


5 occurrences

Numbers (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Daniel (1)