Lexical Summary Kitti or Kittiyyi: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Original Word: יתִתכִּTransliteration: Kitti or Kittiyyi Phonetic Spelling: (kit-tee') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land Meaning: Kittim -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3794. Kitti or Kittiyyi [כִּתִּי] adjective, of a people always plural כִּתִּיִּים כִּתִּים; usually as name, of a people = Cypriotes (compare Phoenician proper name, of a location כתי כת, Citium; on a connection with Kheta, –-t¹, –attê, חִתִּי, see WMMAsien u. Europa,345; — on Citium see CesnolaGyprus 46 ff); — כִּתִּים אֶרֶץ Isaiah 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם 23:12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Genesis 10:4 = 1 Chronicles 1:7; כ ׳מִיַּד וְצִים Numbers 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more Generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, כִּתִּיִּים אִיֵּי Jeremiah 2:10, כִּתִּיִּם אִיֵּי Ezekiel 27:6; even of Macedonian Greece, כִּתִּים צִיִּים 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). |
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