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Khirbet

A ruin or destroyed place; Khirbet Qumran = "ruin of Qumran."

Kittim

The name referred originally to inhabitants of Kiti, capital of the isle of Cyprus, then to any Cypriots, later to Greeks, in general, and eventually even to Romans.