Heth in the Bible

Meaning: trembling; fear

Thematic Bible



Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

And Canaan fathered Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites, with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the {native women}, {what am I living for}?"

Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites with respect to all [who were] entering the gate of his city, [and] said,

Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.

And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites [and] said,

And the Hittites answered Abraham [and] said to him,

And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.

the purchase of the field and the cave which [was] in it from the Hittites."


References

Hastings

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Watsons