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H2845 חֵת (Chêth) khayth
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 2865; terror; Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite

KJV Usage: Heth

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֵת (chet) — 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

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

name · חִתִּי

Names of People

Heth = man; ◄ son of Canaan; ► regarded as founder of Hittites

GEN 10:15 · GEN 23:3 · GEN 23:5 · GEN 23:7 · GEN 23:10 · GEN 23:10 · GEN 23:16 · GEN 23:18 · GEN 23:20 · GEN 25:10 · GEN 27:46 · GEN 27:46 · GEN 49:32 · 1CH 1:13

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֵת n.pr.m. appar. represented as ancestor of Hittites base

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