This is the name of Heth: Son of Canaan and ancestor of the Hittites.
Definition
from H2865; terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite
Traditional renderings: Heth.
Traditional renderings: Heth.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
14 total
- Genesis 10:15חֵֽת׃ · the HittitesAnd Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:3חֵ֖תThen Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:5חֵ֛תThe Hittites replied to Abraham,
- Genesis 23:7חֵֽת׃Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
- Genesis 23:10 (2×)חֵ֑ת · of Heth; חֵ֔תNow Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
- Genesis 23:16חֵ֑תAbraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
- Genesis 23:18חֵ֑ת…to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
- Genesis 23:20חֵֽת׃סSo the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- Genesis 25:10חֵ֑תThis was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- Genesis 27:46 (2×)חֵ֑ת · these Hittite; חֵ֤ת · a HittiteThen Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- Genesis 49:32חֵֽת׃The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
- 1 Chronicles 1:13חֵֽת׃ · of the HittitesAnd Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,