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# גִּתִּית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1665

**Gittite harp** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Gittite harp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1665/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** f. of foregoing (si vera l.) only in phr. עַל־הַגִּתִּית in three ψ-titles: ψ 8:1; 81:1; 84:1; upon the Gittite (lyre) so 𝔗, to the Gittite (melody) Ew Ol De, or either of these Hup Pe; 𝔊 𝔙 הַגִּתֹּת wine-presses, whence Bae al. at the wine-presses, i.e. (Bae) a song for the feast of booths.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gittith (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 81:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.81.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ ׀ עַֽל־הַגִּתִּ֬ית לְאָסָֽף׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster on the Gittith of Asaph

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.

[Psalms 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ עַֽל־הַגִּתִּ֗ית מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster on the Gittith a.psalm of David

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1665.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1665/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).