Hittite
חִתִּיStrong’s H2850chitti (chit-ti)
Appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chitti is the Hebrew word usually translated “hittite”, “hittites” and “hethite”. It appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Heth who was a man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.15
How it's translated
- the hittite 30
- and the hittite 9
- the hittites 5
- a hittite 2
- the hethite 1
- hittite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 8
- 2 Samuel 8
- Exodus 7
- Joshua 6
- 1 Kings 4
- Deuteronomy 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 25:9And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
- Genesis 26:34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Genesis 36:2Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
- Genesis 49:29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
All 47 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חִתִּי chitti · Hittite
Someone descended from Heth who was 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 Group of chet (חֵת "Heth" H2845) § Hittite = "descendant of Heth" the nation descended from Heth, the 2nd son of Canaan; once inhabitants of central Anatolia (modern Turkey), later in north Lebanon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.