People of the Bible
Heth
Family
- Father
- Canaan
- Brothers and sisters
- Amorite, Arkite, Arvadite, Girgasite, Hamathite, Hivite, Jebusite, Sinite, Zemarite, Zidon
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Dread, a descendant of Canaan, and the ancestor of the Hittites (Gen. 10:18; Deut. 7:1), who dwelt in the vicinity of Hebron (Gen. 23:3, 7). The Hittites were a Hamitic race. They are called “the sons of Heth” (Gen. 23:3, 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 12 verses
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.