Gittaim — the meaning of the Hebrew name גִּתַּיִם

גִּתַּיִם

Gittayim · pronounced ghit-tah'-yim · Strong's H1664 · a place

Gittaim means double winepress.

Built from

גַּת gath (dual of, H1660) — a wine-press (or vat for holding the grapes in pressing them) open in the lexicon ›

dual of H1660; double winepress; Gittajim, a place in Palestine.

2Sam 4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) (KJV)

2 occurrences in 2 verses — 2 Samuel, Nehemiah

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Definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); occurrences from the Westminster Leningrad Codex via Hebrew Explorer's interlinear.

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