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Kittim כִּתִּים Kittim

Javan's son in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:4) — Cyprus (Kition) first, then the whole Greek west, and by Daniel 11:30 the newest western sea-power: ROME, whose ships turn Antiochus back (the Dead Sea Scrolls read Kittim as the Romans too). KJV 'Chittim'; NIV translates the name away as 'western coastlands.' → first discussed at Gen 10:4