H3794 H3794
Kittim (proper noun: Cyprus/western maritime peoples)
1. Kittim (proper noun: Cyprus/western maritime peoples) — A proper gentilicic noun referring originally to the inhabitants of Kition on Cyprus, extended in prophetic and apocalyptic literature to denote western maritime peoples (especially in Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls); transliterated as Quitim/Kitim (Spa), कित्तीम (Hin), كِتِّيم (Arb), 깃딤/깃딬 (Kor), Kitimu (Swa). The English gloss 'to Cyprus' in S107942 shows the geographic reference, while the ketiv variant in S107943 is a scribal orthographic difference, not a semantic distinction. All three clusters denote the same referent across bare, prepositional, and ketiv/qere forms. 10×
AR["(كِتِّيمَ)","[كِتِّيمَ]","كِتِّيمَ","كِتِّيمُ","كِتّيم"]·ben["কিত্তীম","কিত্তীম-এ","কিত্তীম-এর","কিত্তীমদের","কিত্তীমের"]·DE["Kittim","[(כתים)]","[[כתיים]]","[כתיים]","[כתים]"]·EN["Cyprus","Kittim","[Kittim]","[ketiv]","of-Kittim","to-Cyprus"]·FR["Kittim","[(כתים)]","[[כתיים]]","[כתיים]","[כתים]"]·heb["[כתיים]","כיתיים","כיתים","כתיים","כתים"]·HI["(कित्तियों-के)","(कित्तीम)","[कित्तियों]","[कित्तीम]","कित्ती","कित्तीम","कित्तीम-के"]·ID["(Kitim).","Kitim","[ketiv]","ke-Kitim"]·IT["Chittim","Kittim","[(כתים)]","[[כתיים]]","[כתיים]","[כתים]"]·jav["(Kitim)","Kitim","Kitim.","[Kitim]"]·KO["(깃딬에)","[깃딬]","[케티브]","걃디의","깃뒄의","깃딘-의","깃딤","깃딬의","깃림-의"]·PT["(ketiv)","Kittim"]·RU["[Kethiv]","Китима","Киттим","Киттима","в-Киттим"]·ES["(Kitim)","(Quitim)","Kitim","Kitím","Quitim","[Kitim]","[Quitim]"]·SW["(k)","Kitimu","[ketiv]","ya-Kitimu","za-Kitimu"]·TR["(Kittim'e)","(Kittim)","Kittim","Kittim'in","[Kittim]","[k:Kittim]"]·urd["(کتیم)","[کتیم]","کتیم","کتیم-کی","کتیم-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [כִּתִּי] adj.gent. always pl. כִּתִּים, כִּתִּיִּים; usually as n.gent. = Cypriotes (cf. Ph. n.pr.loc. כת, כתי, Citium; on a connexion with Kheta, Ḫ-tā, Ḫattê, חִתִּי, v. WMMAsien u. Europa, 345;—on Citium v. Cesnola Cyprus 46 ff.);—אֶרֶץ כִּתִּים Is 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם v 12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Gn 10:4 = 1 Ch 1:7; וְצִים מִיַּד כ׳ Nu 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of kittim; more…