H2845

חֵת

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Heth

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.15; son of: Canaan (H3667); brother of: Sidon (H6721), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577); also called Hittite (KJV: "of Heth") frequently Also named: chit.ti (חִתִּי "Hittite" H2850) § Heth = "terror" a son of Canaan and the progenitor of the Hittites

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

חֵת proper name, masculine apparently represented as ancestor of the Hittites (etymology and meaning unknown; pronounced as from √ עע֞ in Hebrew & Assyrian, but not Egyptian; see חִתִּי below) — 'begotten' by Canaan Gen 10:15 (J) = 1Chr 1:13 elsewhere only in combination with בְּנֵי, בְּנוֺת;
  a. בְּנֵיחֵֿת according to P lived at Mamre (Hebron), and one of them sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah for a sepulchre Gen 23:3; Gen 23:5; Gen 23:10 (twice in verse); Gen 23:16; Gen 23:18; Gen 23:20; Gen 25:10; Gen 49:32.
  b. בְּנוֺת(ֿ)חֵת only of wives of Esau Gen 27:46 (twice in verse) (P; ᵐ5 omits vb; || בְּנוֺת הָאָרֶץ = בְּנוֺת כְּנָ֑עַן Gen 28:1).


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