Heth

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Son of Canaan, Ham's son; from whence sprung the Hittites, occupying the hill country of Judah near Hebron. But the race enlarged its borders so that they with the Amorites represent all Canaan ( Joshua 1:4;  Ezekiel 16:3, "thy father was an Amorite, thy mother an Hittite".) See  Genesis 23:3-20. Esau's marriage to one of the daughters of Heth "grieved the mind" of Isaac and Rebekah, for their morals were lax and their worship idolatrous ( Genesis 26:34-35;  Genesis 27:46). In Solomon's and in Joram's times there were independent Hittite kings ( 1 Kings 10:29;  2 Kings 7:6). In the Egyptian monuments they are called the Kheta, who made themselves masters of Syria.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HETH . A ‘son’ of Canaan,   Genesis 10:15 (J [Note: Jahwist.] ) =   1 Chronicles 1:13 . The wives of Esau are called in   Genesis 27:46 (R [Note: Redactor.] ) ‘daughters of Heth’; and in   Genesis 23:3 ff;   Genesis 25:10;   Genesis 49:32 (all P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] ) ‘children of Heth,’ i.e. Hittites, are located at Mamre. See, further, Hittites.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Second son of Canaan, from whom descended the HITTITES, q.v. They are often called 'the children of Heth.'   Genesis 10:15;  Genesis 23:3-20;  Genesis 25:10;  Genesis 27:46;  Genesis 49:32;  1 Chronicles 1:13 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Heth. (Terror). The forefather of the nation of the Hittites. In the genealogical tables of  Genesis 10:15 and  1 Chronicles 1:13, Heth is a son of Canaan.  Genesis 24:3-4;  Genesis 28:1-2.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

the father of the Hittites, was the eldest son of Canaan,  Genesis 10:15 , and dwelt southward of the promised land, probably about Hebron. Ephron, who was an inhabitant of that city, was of the race of Heth; and in the time of Abraham the whole city were of the family of Heth.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 10:18 Deuteronomy 7:1 Genesis 23:3,7 Genesis 23:3,5,7,10,16,18,20

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 10:15 Genesis 23:1

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Chetf, חֶת , Dread; Sept. (ὁ Χετταῖος, and so Josephus, Ant. 1, 6, 2), a son (descendant) of Canaan, and the ancestor of the Hittites ( Genesis 5:20;  Deuteronomy 7:1;  Joshua 1:4), who dwelt in the vicinity of Hebron ( Genesis 23:3;  Genesis 23:7;  Genesis 25:10). The ‘ kings of the Hittites" is spoken of all the Canaanitish kings ( 2 Kings 2:6). In the genealogical tables of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1, Heth is named as a son of Canaan, younger than Zidon the firstborn, but preceding the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the other Canaanitish-families. The Hittites were therefore a Hamitic race, neither of the "country" nor the "kindred" of Abraham and Isaac ( Genesis 24:3-4;  Genesis 28:1-2). In the earliest historical mention of the nation the beautiful narrative of Abraham's purchase of the cave of Machpelah they are styled, not Hittites, but Bene-Cheth (A.V. "sons and children of Heth,"  Genesis 23:3;  Genesis 23:5;  Genesis 23:7;  Genesis 23:10;  Genesis 23:16;  Genesis 23:18;  Genesis 23:20;  Genesis 25:10;  Genesis 49:32). Once we hear of the "daughters of Heth" ( Genesis 27:46), the "daughters of the land," at that early period still called, after their less immediate progenitor, "daughters of Canaan" ( Genesis 28:1;  Genesis 28:8, compared with  Genesis 27:46, and  Genesis 26:34-35; see also  1 Kings 11:1;  Ezekiel 16:3). In the Egyptian monuments the name Chat is said to stand for Palestine (Bunsen, Egypten, quoted by Ewald, Gesch. 1, 317, note). (See Hittite).