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כִּיתָּי   adj.  Kitian, i.e., Aegean


  Kitian, i.e. Aegean  JLAtg.

=MT כִּתִּים. Although it is generally accepted that the Biblical term refers to the inhabitants of Cyprus, by later times it probably had become somewhat of the mysterious term and there is little reason to assume that the targumists new the original meaning; a general connection with the Aegean, however, is usually clear from the context.
  
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