גִּתִּית
Gittîyth · H1665 · Hebrew · proper noun · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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gittith
Meaning unknown; possibly: musical term; or: musical instrument; or: melody; possibly associated with the winepress or with the town of Gath
ExamplesPsalm 8:1 For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
Psalm 81:1 For the music director; on the Gittith. {A Psalm} of Asaph.
Psalm 84:1 For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Sing002004001009006
- The term appears in psalm superscriptions instructing how the psalm is to be performed, associated with joyful singing and shouting in the psalms it heads.
- Musical Instruments001003001001013
- The word likely designates a musical instrument or tune from Gath, used as a technical performance notation in the headings of three psalms.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1665. Gittith גִּתִּית feminine of foregoing (si vera lectio) only in phrase…
גִּתִּית feminine of foregoing (si vera lectio) only in phrase עַלהַֿגִּתִּית in three Psalm titles: Psa 8:1; Psa 81:1; Psa 84:1; upon the Gittite (lyre) so ᵑ7,to the Gittite (melody) Ew Ol De, or either of these Hup Pe; הַגִּתֹּת ᵑ9 ᵐ5 wine-presses, whence Bae and others at the wine-presses, i.e. (Bae) a song for the feast of booths.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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