Chet חֵת
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| חֵת | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | chet |
| Strong's number | H2845 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | name of a man |
| Gloss | Heth |
| Occurrences | 14 in 12 verses |
| Most frequent in | Genesis (11) |
Chet (Hebrew חֵת, Strong's H2845) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Heth”. It occurs 14 times.
Definition
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
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
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | heth (14) |
|---|---|
| BSB | hittites (2), heth (1), these hittite (1), hittite (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Chet, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 10:15And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- Genesis 23:5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,The Hittites replied to Abraham,
- Genesis 23:7And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
- Genesis 23:10And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,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,
- Genesis 23:16And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.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.
- Genesis 23:18Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
- Genesis 23:20And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- Genesis 25:10The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- Genesis 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?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?”
- Genesis 49:32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 1:13And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).