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Strong's #2845 - חֵת
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Heth = “terror”
1) a son of Canaan and the progenitor of the Hittites
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a.בְּנֵיחֵֿת according to P lived at Mamre (Hebron), and one of them sold Abraham the cave of Machpelah for a sepulchre Genesis 23:3,5,10 (twice in verse); Genesis 23:16,18,20; Genesis 25:10; Genesis 49:32.
b. בְּנוֺת(ֿ)חֵת only of wives of Esau Genesis 27:46 (twice in verse) (P; ᵐ5 omits v b; "" בְּנוֺת הָאָרֶץ = בְּנוֺת כְּנָ֑עַן Genesis 28:1).
חֵת (“fear,” “terror”) [Heth], pr.n. of a Canaanite, Genesis 10:15, progenitor of the Canaanitish nation bearing the same name [Hittites], sometimes called בְּנֵי חֵת Genesis 23:3, seq.; 25:10 (בְּנוֹת חֵת 27:46 ); sometimes חִתִּי plur. חִתִּים, inhabiting the neighbourhood of Hebron (Genesis 23:7); Genesis 15:20; Deuteronomy 7:1; Joshua 1:4. מַלְכֵי הַחִתִּים 2 Kings 7:6, a name given to all the Canaanitish kings [?].
[“Fem. חִתִּית Ezekiel 16:3, plur. חִתִּיּוֹת 1 Kings 11:1, also בְּנוֹת חֵת Genesis 27:46.”]
