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title: חֵת — Heth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֵת (2845), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: Heth. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֵת

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«חֵת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Heth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 14 times · **Key:** 2845 · **BDB:** חֵת

### Glosses

of.Heth (12); Heth (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Heth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** 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; 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, 10(×2), 16, 18, 20; 25:10; 49:32. בְּנוֹת(־)חֵת only of wives of Esau Gn 27:46(×2) (P; 𝔊 om. v b; ‖ בְּנוֹת הָאָרֶץ = בְּנוֹת כְּנָ֑עַן 28:1).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֵת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2845/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.15/)

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וּכְנַ֗עַן יָלַ֛ד אֶת־צִידֹ֥ן בְּכֹר֖וֹ וְאֶת־חֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and Canaan he.fathered (et) Sidon firstborn his and (et) Heth

*JPS 1917:* And Canaan begot Zidon his firstborn, and Heth;

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[Genesis 23:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.23.5/)

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וַיַּעֲנ֧וּ בְנֵי־חֵ֛ת אֶת־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֥ר לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and they.answered the.people of.Heth (et) Abraham (cmp) to him

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him:

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