Heth

A man, in the time of the Patriarchs · Early Patriarch · named in 12 verses

the name means Dread Easton's Bible Dictionary

Heth was a son of Canaan and the ancestor of the Hittites, a prominent people group in the ancient Near East.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Dread, a descendant of Canaan, and the ancestor of the Hittites (Gen. 10:18; Deut. 7:1), who dwelt in the vicinity of Hebron (Gen. 23:3, 7). The Hittites were a Hamitic race. They are called "the sons of Heth" (Gen. 23:3, 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20).

Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.

Family

Parents Canaan

Siblings Amorites, Arkites, Arvadites, Girgashites, Hamathites, Sidon, Jebusites, Hivites, Sinites, Zemarites

From STEPBible's TIPNR genealogy data. A relationship the data marks uncertain is not shown here.

First named at Genesis 10:15.

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Verses that name Heth

Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
Genesis 23:5 The Hittites replied to Abraham,
Genesis 23:7 Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 23:10 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 23:16 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 23:18 to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:20 So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
Genesis 25:10 This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 27:46 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 49:32 The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
1 Chronicles 1:13 And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,