Kittim
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kittim-189-7598079
title:
Kittim
text:
Kittim was a settlement in present-day Larnaca on the east coast of Cyprus, known in ancient times as Kition, or Citium. On this basis, the whole island became known as "Kittim" in Hebrew, including the Hebrew Bible. However the name seems to have been employed with some flexibility in Hebrew literature. It was often applied to all the Aegean islands and even to "the W[est] in general, but esp[ecially] the seafaring W[est]". Flavius Josephus records in his Antiquities of the Jews that
- Cethim
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Biblical term
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittim
date created:
2005-05-24T18:35:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T10:10:29Z
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fields total:
13
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16