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# גִּתִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1663

**the Gittites** — used 10 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

the Gittites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1663/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּתִּי²: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1663/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of ii. גַּת 1; of Obed-edom 2 S 6:10, 11 = 1 Ch 13:13; Ittai 2 S 15:19, 22; 18:2; Goliath 21:19 1 Ch 20:5; pl. c. art. as subst., הַגִּתִּים 1 S 15:18 the Gittites (but read אִתַּי הַגִּתִּי We Klo Kit Bu NowArch.i.308 n.); sg. c. art. as n.pr.coll. הַגִּתִּי Jos 13:3 (with men of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashḳelon, Eḳron, and the Awwim).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gittite (8); Gittite\[s\] (1); Gittites (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 13:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.13.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.13.13/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־הֵסִ֨יר דָּוִ֧יד אֶת־הָאָר֛וֹן אֵלָ֖יו אֶל־עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑יד וַיַּטֵּ֕הוּ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית עֹבֵֽד־אֱדֹ֖םעֹבֵֽד־אֱדֹ֖ם הַגִּתִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and not he.turned.aside David (et) the ark to himself to the.city of.David and he took.it.aside to the.house of Obed-Edom the Gittite

*JPS 1917:* So David removed not the ark unto him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

[2 Samuel 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.10/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־אָבָ֣ה דָוִ֗ד לְהָסִ֥יר אֵלָ֛יו אֶת־אֲר֥וֹן יְהוָ֖ה עַל־עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וַיַּטֵּ֣הוּ דָוִ֔ד בֵּ֥ית עֹבֵֽד־אֱד֖וֹםעֹבֵֽד־אֱד֖וֹם הַגִּתִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and not he.was.willing David to turn.aside to himself (et) the.ark of.Yahweh to the.city of.David and he took.it.aside David the.house of Obed-Edom the Gittite

*JPS 1917:* So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1663.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1663/): 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).