Senses
1. Heth (personal/ethnic name) — Proper masculine noun חֵת (Heth/Cheth), the eponymous ancestor of the Hittites, listed as a son of Canaan in the Table of Nations (Gen 10:15; 1 Chr 1:13) and referenced as the patriarch of the 'sons/daughters of Heth' (בְּנֵי־חֵת) in the Abraham narratives about purchasing the cave of Machpelah (Gen 23:3, 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20; 25:10; 27:46; 49:32). All 14 occurrences denote the same individual/ethnic ancestor. The two clusters show no semantic difference — both render the bare proper name. Multilingual evidence: eng 'Heth', spa 'Chet/Jet', hin हेत, arb حِيث/حِثّ, kor 헷, swa 'Heti/Hethi.' 14×
AR["حيث","حِثٍّ","حِثَّ","حِثّ","حِيثَ"]·ben["হেত","হেতের","হেৎ"]·DE["Chet","Chets","Hets","[חת]"]·EN["Cheth","Heth"]·FR["Heth","[חת]"]·heb["חת"]·HI["हēत-को","हेत","हेत-की","हेत-के"]·ID["Het"]·IT["Het","[חת]"]·jav["Het","Hèt","Hét"]·KO["헷","헷의"]·PT["Chet","Het"]·RU["Хета"]·ES["Chet","Jet"]·SW["Hethi","Heti","kila","mia"]·TR["Het'i","Het'in","Heth'in","gömüldü"]·urd["حت","حت-کے","حیت"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† חֵת 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; a. 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,…