giti · Gittite

What it means

giti (גִּתִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gittite”.

An inhabitant of the Philistine city of Gath.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone from the city of Gath.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Gittite ×9
• Gittites ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Joshua×1
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Chronicles×2

• Joshua 13:3

  (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, and as far as the border of Ekron to the north, it is counted as Canaanite); the five rulers of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and the Avvites

• 2 Samuel 6:10

  So David was not willing to move the ark of YHWH to himself into the city of David; and David turned it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

• 2 Samuel 6:11

  The ark of YHWH remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and YHWH blessed Obed-edom and all his house.

• 2 Samuel 15:18

  All his servants were passing beside him, and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come after him from Gath, were passing before the king.

• 2 Samuel 15:19

  The king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why will you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner, and also an exile you are from your place.

• 2 Samuel 15:22

  David said to Ittai, “Go and cross over.” So Ittai the Gittite crossed over, and all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

• 2 Samuel 18:2

  David sent out the people, a third under the command of Joab, a third under the command of Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will surely go out with you myself too.”

• 2 Samuel 21:19

  There was again war at Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck Goliath the Gittite; and the shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers.

• 1 Chronicles 13:13

  So David did not move the ark to himself, to the city of David, but he turned it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

• 1 Chronicles 20:5

  There was war again with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jair struck Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite; and the shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers.