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(Heb. Gittith', âַּúַּéú , prob. for ðְâֶðֶú , and so kindred with NEGINOTH), a stringed instrument of music (Psa_8:1; Psa_81:1; Psa_84:1). The term seems to be derived (with the Targums) from the city GATH, not (with the Sept. ὑðὲñ ôῶí ëçíῶí ) from a wine-press (as a vintage-song, Michael. Suppl. page 382); nor from the root ðָâִï , to strike (Redslob, De praecepto nus., etc., Lips. 1831, page 24), Gesenius, Tanes. Hebr. page 849. On the other hand, Furst (Concord. page 256) derives it from âָּúִú , to deepen, and calls it "a musical instrument curved and hollow (syn. çָìַéì );" as in his Heb. Lex. page 304, he says it is the name of "a musical body of Levites who had their chief seat in the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon, the word in the titles of Psalms not being capable of an interpretation referringr to instruments or airs." SEE PSALMS.