חֵת
Chêth · H2845 · Hebrew · proper noun · 14 occurrences
Person
- Hethfirst named in Genesis 10:1512 verses
Meanings
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Heth
A man, son of Canaan, regarded as the founder of the Hittites
ExamplesGenesis 10:15 Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham arose from mourning before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
Genesis 23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָלַדto bear 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
12 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 10
- בַּתdaughter 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Names of People003001007
- חֵת is the proper name Heth, son of Canaan and ancestor of the Hittites, from whom Abraham purchased the cave of Machpelah (Genesis 23).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2845. Cheth חֵת proper name, masculine apparently represented as ancestor of the…
חֵת proper name, masculine apparently represented as ancestor of the Hittites (etymology and meaning unknown; pronounced as from √ עע֞ in Hebrew & Assyrian, but not Egyptian; see חִתִּי below) — 'begotten' by Canaan Gen 10:15 (J) = 1Ch 1:13; elsewhere only in combination with בְּנוֺת בְּנֵי,;
a. בְּנֵיחֵֿת according to P lived at Mamre (Hebron), and one of them sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah for a sepulchre Gen 23:3, Gen 23:5, Gen 23:10 (twice in verse); Gen 23:16, Gen 23:18, Gen 23:20; Gen 25:10; Gen 49:32.
b. בְּנוֺת(ֿ)חֵת only of wives of Esau Gen 27:46 (twice in verse) (P; ᵐ5 omits vb; || הָאָרֶץ בְּנוֺת = כְּנָ֑עַן בְּנוֺת Gen 28:1).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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