Bible Person
Meaning: breaking; bruising small; gold; coloring · Male · 2 cross references
Kittim is the ancestral name of a people descended from Javan in the table of nations. The page uses a person-style entry because the dataset preserves ethnonyms in genealogical form. First appears in Gen 10:4.1
AI summary: Kittim matters because the cross references place the name among the maritime or western peoples descending from Javan, extending Genesis into a structured vision of nations beyond the biblical heartland. Like other ethnonym entries, it helps frame Israel's world by naming surrounding peoples in familial terms. Taken together, the material presents Kittim as an ethnonym contributing to Scripture's remembered ordering of the nations.1
Central Figure
Kittim
Meaning: breaking; bruising small; gold; coloring
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AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.