Heth
חֵתStrong’s H2845chet
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chet is the Hebrew word usually translated “heth”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.15
How it's translated
- heth 14
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 11
- 1 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 23:3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
- Genesis 23:5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
- Genesis 23:7And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “he” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HE, pronoun
of the third person; nom. he; poss.his; obj. him. [Latin id, for hid; hic.]
- A pronoun, a substitute for the third person, masculine gender, representing the man or male person named before.“Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” Genesis 3:16“Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve” Deuteronomy 6:13
- It often has reference to a person that is named in the subsequent part of the sentence. he is the man.
- he is often used without reference to any particular person, and may be referred to any person indefinitely that answers the description.“HE that walketh with wise men, shall be wise” Proverbs 13:20
- he when a substitute for man in its general sense, expressing mankind, is of common gender, representing, like its antecedent, the whole human race.“My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” Genesis 6:3
All definitions
- Man; a male.
- he is sometimes prefixed to the names of animals to designate the male kind, as a he-goat, a he-bear.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.