Gittite

Git´it

Someone who lives in or is from Gath. Gath was one of the five major cities of the Philistines located in the coastal plain of southwestern Judah. The giant Goliath and his brother Lahmi were Gittites (2Sam 21:19; 1Chr 20:5), as were Obed-edom, whose house was the temporary resting place of the Ark of the Covenant (2Sam 6:10-11; 1Chr 13:13), and Ittai, the refugee who joined David and became one of his military commanders (2Sam 15:19-22; 2Sam 18:2).