כִּתִּיKittîy
= Cypriotes (Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 23:12; Genesis 10:4; 1 Chronicles 1:7; Numbers 24:24)
Pronunciation: kit-tee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3794
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 10:4 The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
- Numbers 24:24 Ships will come from the coasts of Cyprus; they will oppress Assyria and afflict Eber, but they, too, will be utterly destroyed.”
- 1 Chronicles 1:7 The descendants of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
- Isaiah 23:1 This message came to me concerning Tyre: Wail, you trading ships of Tarshish, for the harbor and houses of Tyre are gone! The rumors you heard in Cyprus are all true.
- Isaiah 23:12 He says, “Never again will you rejoice, O daughter of Sidon, for you have been crushed. Even if you flee to Cyprus, you will find no rest.”
- Jeremiah 2:10 “Go west and look in the land of Cyprus; go east and search through the land of Kedar. Has anyone ever heard of anything as strange as this?
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).