Meanings
heth1
plural heths · alternative chet · alternative cheth · alternative ḥet · alternative ẖet · alternative hheth · alternative het · alternative khet · alternative kheth
- The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Heth2
Heth3
- biblicalA "son" of Canaan. Progenitor of a Canaanite people known as "The sons of Heth", located in near the city of Hebron.
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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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.
Origin
Heth · proper noun
- Middle Englishheeth
- Scottish GaelicÁed
- EnglishHeth
Likely of multiple origins, including: *From an anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Áed. *From Middle English heeth.
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- Biblical Hebrewחֵת
- Ancient GreekΧετταῖον
- Ecclesiastical LatinEttheum
- EnglishHeth
From Ecclesiastical Latin Ettheum, from Ancient Greek Χετταῖον (Khettaîon), from Biblical Hebrew חֵת (ḥēṯ).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan het
- hetSemitic letter
Finnish het
- hetSemitic letter
French hèt, cheth
- hètSemitic letter
- chethSemitic letter
- hetSemitic letter
- hethSemitic letter
German Chet, Cheth
- ChetSemitic letter
- ChethSemitic letter
Hebrew חי״ת \ חֵית
- חי״ת \ חֵית (khet)Semitic letter
Yiddish חית
- חית (khes)Semitic letter
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with heth
All rhymes →Cite this entry
heth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heth
“heth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heth. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heth.
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