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HebrewH3794Noun

כִּתִּי

kit.ti

8Occurrences
H3794Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Kittite or Cypriote; hence, an islander in general, i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine

or כִּתִּיִּי; patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Kittim of the Greeks, first mentioned at ; descended from Javan (H3120); along with Elishah (H0473), Tarshish (H8659) and Dodanim (H1721) § Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers" 1) a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean ) the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--LG

Full Description

N:N--LG

Occurrences

כִּתִּי appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
2
1 Chronicles
1
Daniel
1
Ezk
1
Genesis
1
Jeremiah
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 1:7BSB

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

Daniel 11:30BSB

Ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and rage against the holy covenant and do damage. So he will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant.

Ezk 27:6BSB

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Genesis 10:4BSB

And the sons of Javan:Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

Isaiah 23:1BSB

This is the burden against Tyre:Wail, O ships of Tarshish,for Tyre is laid waste,without house or harbor.Word has reached themfrom the land of Cyprus.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.