חֵת

chetHeth
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man14 occurrences2 books12 verses
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.

Glossary entries

Heth

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

14 total
  1. Genesis 10:15חֵֽת׃ · the Hittites
    And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
  2. Genesis 23:3חֵ֖ת
    Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
  3. Genesis 23:5חֵ֛ת
    The Hittites replied to Abraham,
  4. Genesis 23:7חֵֽת׃
    Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
  5. Genesis 23:10 (2×)חֵ֑ת · of Heth; חֵ֔ת
    Now 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,
  6. Abraham 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.
  7. …to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
  8. Genesis 23:20חֵֽת׃ס
    So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
  9. This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
  10. Genesis 27:46 (2×)חֵ֑ת · these Hittite; חֵ֤ת · a Hittite
    Then 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?”
  11. Genesis 49:32חֵֽת׃
    The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
  12. 1 Chronicles 1:13חֵֽת׃ · of the Hittites
    And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,