Lexical Definition

‎כִּתִּי‎ Kittîy (kit-tee') Kittim ^N:N--LG
or כִּתִּיִּי Kittîyîy (kit-tee-ee'); patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural)

Chittim, Kittim.

• § Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers"
• a Kittite or Cypriote
• hence, an islander in general, i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine

1) a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea
2) the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎כִּתִּי‎] adjective, of a people always plural ‎כִּתִּים‎ ‎כִּתִּיִּים‎; usually as name, of a people = Cypriotes (compare Phoenician proper name, of a location ‎כת‎ ‎כתי‎, Citium; on a connection with Kheta, –-t¹, –attê, ‎חִתִּי‎, see WMM^{Asien u. Europa,345}; — on Citium see Cesnola^{Gyprus 46 ff}); — ‎אֶרֶץ כִּתִּים‎ Isa 23:1, ‎כִּתִּיי֯ם‎ vIsa 23:12 ‎כִּתִּים‎ (as son of Yawan) Gen 10:4 = 1Chr 1:7 ‎וְצִים‎ ‎׳‎‎מִיַּד כ‎ Num 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, ‎אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּים‎ Jer 2:10, ‎אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּם‎ Ezek 27:6 even of Macedonian Greece, ‎צִיִּים כִּתִּים‎ Dan 11:30 (only here as adjective, compare Bev) i.e. Grecian ships. ‎כָּתִית‎ see below ‎כתת‎.

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