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Heth

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A "son" of Canaan. Progenitor of a Canaanite people known as "The sons of Heth", located in near the city of Hebron.

    "And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad."

Noun
  1. 1
    The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  2. 2
    the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Likely of multiple origins, including: *From an anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Áed. *From Middle English heeth.

Etymology 2

From Ecclesiastical Latin Ettheum, from Ancient Greek Χετταῖον (Khettaîon), from Biblical Hebrew חֵת (ḥēṯ).

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