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heth

heth noun: the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Noun

heth (plural heths)

  1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Heth

Heth (plural Heths)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Heth

Heth

  1. 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.
    • And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

Forms of heth

Noun
pluralheths
alternative formchet
alternative formcheth
alternative formḥet
alternative formẖet
alternative formhheth
alternative formhet
alternative formkhet
alternative formkheth
Proper noun
pluralHeths

Origin of heth

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

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

Words formed from heth

  • בְּנֵי חֵת

Words that rhyme with heth

Questions about heth

What does heth mean?
Heth means the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
What part of speech is heth?
Heth can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of heth?
The plural of heth is heths.

Words near heth in the dictionary

  1. heterœcism
  2. hetfic
  3. Hetfield
  4. Hetfields
  5. hetgem
  6. heth
  7. hether
  8. Hetherington
  9. Hetheringtons
  10. hethers
  11. Hethersett

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