git.ti is a gentilic designation applied to named individuals and to a group described as coming from Gath.

The term is used as a masculine gentilic identifier for individuals such as Obed-edom, Ittai, and Goliath, and in the plural for a body of men described as coming from Gath. The supplied verses show the same identifying use in household, military, and narrative settings.

1. Gentilic identification of persons or a group · dominant

   The singular masculine gentilic form identifies named people: in 2 Samuel 15:19 the APB renders Ittai with this designation as David tells him to return, while 2 Samuel 18:2 places Ittai over a third of David's people. The plural form in 2 Samuel 15:18 identifies six hundred men who had come from Gath; 1 Chronicles 13:13 and 2 Samuel 21:19 likewise attach the singular designation to Obed-edom and Goliath in their respective clauses.

   2 Samuel 15:182 Samuel 15:192 Samuel 18:21 Chronicles 13:132 Samuel 21:192 Samuel 6:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the personal references, the APB commonly presents the designation as “the Gittite” and uses “the Gittites” for the plural group in 2 Samuel 15:18. In Joshua 13:3, the APB lists Gath among the Philistine rulers, so the term's specific English contribution is not isolated by the translation.