Lexicon / H3794
כִּתִּי
kit.ti
  • Kittim
  • Cyprus
  • Cypriotes

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: Kittim; Cyprus

Someone descended from Kittim of the Greeks, first mentioned at Gen.10.4; 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 Sea

2) the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

§ Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers"

a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: Cypriotes

כִּתִּי adj.gent n.gent Cypriotes . alw. pl.; usu. as. =