Bible Names

Kittim: meaning of the name

Kittim means “breaking; bruising small; gold; coloring.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Kittim in Hebrew and Greek

כִּתִּי H3794

Kittîy (kit-tee') — a Kittite or Cypriote; hence, an islander in general, i.e. the Greeks or Romans on the shores opposite Palestine

or כִּתִּיִּי; patrial from an unused name denoting Cyprus (only in the plural);

Who named Kittim in the Bible

Places named Kittim

Kittim in Scripture

“Kittim” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:4

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:7

    And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.