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# חֵת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2845

**Heth** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Heth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. appar. represented as ancestor of the Hittites (etym. and meaning unknown; pronounced as from √ ע״ע in Heb. & Assyrian, but not Egyptian; v. חִתִּי infr.)—‘begotten’ by Canaan Gn 10:15 (J) = 1 Ch 1:13; elsewhere only in combin. with בְּנֵי, בְּנוֹת; בְּנֵי־חֵת according to P lived at Mamre (Hebron), and one of them sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah for a sepulchre Gn 23:3, 5, 10(×2), 16, 18, 20; 25:10; 49:32. בְּנוֹת(־)חֵת only of wives of Esau Gn 27:46(×2) (P; 𝔊 om. v b; ‖ בְּנוֹת הָאָרֶץ = בְּנוֹת כְּנָ֑עַן 28:1).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Heth (12); Heth (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.15/#tree)

וּכְנַ֗עַן יָלַ֛ד אֶת־צִידֹ֥ן בְּכֹר֖וֹ וְאֶת־חֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and Canaan he.fathered (et) Sidon firstborn his and (et) Heth

*JPS 1917:* And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

[Genesis 23:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.5/#tree)

וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ בְנֵי־חֵ֛ת אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֥ר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.answered the.people of.Heth (et) Abraham (cmp) to him

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2845.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).