the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #3794 - כִּתִּי
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- Chittim or Kittim = "bruisers"
- a general term for all islanders of the Mediterranean Sea
- the descendants of Javan, the son of Japheth and grandson of Noah
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name, of a people = Cypriotes (compare Phoenician proper name, of a location כתכתי, Citium; on a connection with Kheta, –-t¹, –attê, חִתִּי, see WMM Asien u. Europa,345; — on Citium see Cesnola Gyprus 46 ff); — אֶרֶץ כִּתִּים Isaiah 23:1, כִּתִּיי֯ם Isaiah 23:12; כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) Genesis 10:4 = 1 Chronicles 1:7; וְצִים׳מִיַּד כ Numbers 24:24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more Generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּים Jeremiah 2:10, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּם Ezekiel 27:6; even of Macedonian Greece, צִיִּים כִּתִּים 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).
