Person
Heth
Mentioned in 12 verses across 2 books, first in Genesis 10:15. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
In the Bible
The first 10 of 12 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Genesis
- 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?”
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.