כִּתִּי
Kittîy · H3794 · Hebrew · proper noun · 8 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 places
- Cyprusfirst named in Isaiah 23:112 verses
- Kittimfirst named in Numbers 24:242 verses
Person
Meanings
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Kittim
Nation regarded as descendants of Javan, son of Japheth, possibly to be identified with Greece
ExamplesGenesis 10:4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Numbers 24:24 “But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, And they shall oppress Asshur and oppress Eber; So they also will come to destruction.”
1 Chronicles 1:7 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
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
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- אִיcoast 2
- יָדhand, power 1
- צִיship 1
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
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 1 entry
- Names of Groups003001006
- This word denotes the Kittim, a people associated with the island of Cyprus and, more broadly, western coastlands (Genesis 10:4, Numbers 24:24), so it belongs among names for peoples.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3794. Kitti or Kittiyyi [כִּתִּי] adjective, of a people always plural כִּתִּיִּים…
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 Isa 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם Isa 23:12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Gen 10:4 = 1Ch 1:7; כ ׳מִיַּד וְצִים Num 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more Generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, כִּתִּיִּים אִיֵּי Jer 2:10, כִּתִּיִּם אִיֵּי Eze 27:6; even of Macedonian Greece, כִּתִּים צִיִּים Dan 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).
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
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