ΚΙΤΙΟΝ, κιτιον
KITION, kition
Sounds Like: KI-tee-on
Translations: Kition, Kittim
From the root: ΚΙΤΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Kition was an ancient city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus, known today as Larnaca. It was a significant port city with a long history, often associated with the biblical Kittim, descendants of Javan. The term 'Kittim' could refer to the inhabitants of Kition, or more broadly to Cyprus, or even to people from the western Mediterranean.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G2776 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:128
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΙΤΙΟΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΙΤΙΑΙΩΝ — of Citium, of the Kittim, of the Cypriots
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