כִּתִּי

[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 Es 23,1, כִּתִּיי֯ם vEs 23,12 כִּתִּים (as son of Yawan) 1 Mos 10,4 = 1 Kron 1,7 וְצִים ׳מִיַּד כ 4 Mos 24,24 ships from the side (direction) of Kittim; more generally, of coast-lands of Mediterranean, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּים Jer 2,10, אִיֵּי כִּתִּיִּם Ezk 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.