King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3794
Transliteration: Kitti or Kittiyyi
Phonetic Spelling: (kit-tee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Kittim -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land
Word Summary
Kitti or Kittiyyi: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land
Original Word: יתִתכִּTransliteration: Kitti or Kittiyyi
Phonetic Spelling: (kit-tee')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: a son of Javan, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Kittim -- a son of Javan, also his descendants and their land
Strong's Concordance
Chittim, Kittim 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
H3794. Kitti
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 Isaiah 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם 23:12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Genesis 10:4 = 1 Chronicles 1:7; כ ׳מִיַּד וְצִים Numbers 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more Generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, כִּתִּיִּים אִיֵּי Jeremiah 2:10, כִּתִּיִּם אִיֵּי Ezekiel 27:6; even of Macedonian Greece, כִּתִּים צִיִּים Daniel 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).