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Strong's #3794: Kittiy (pronounced kit-tee')

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 Hebrew Lexicon:

ּּּ / ּּ

kittı̂y / kittı̂yı̂y

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

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural)



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Genesis 10:4: "of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim."
Numbers 24:24: "And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict and shall afflict Eber,"
1 Chronicles 1:7: "of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim."
Isaiah 23:1: "so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed"
Isaiah 23:12: "of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest."
Jeremiah 2:10: "For pass over the isles of Chittim, and send unto Kedar, and consider"
Ezekiel 27:6: "have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim."
Daniel 11:30: "For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and have indignation against the holy"









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