חִתִּי

Genesis 15:20 הַחִתִּ֥י the Hittite[s]

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Genesis 23:10 הַחִתִּ֤י the Hethite

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

Genesis 25:9 הַֽחִתִּ֔י the Hittite

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

Here: "The Hittite." A member of the "sons of Heth", the local people of Hebron in the patriarchal stories. Who exactly they were is debated (see the studies).

Genesis 26:34 הַֽחִתִּ֑י הַֽחִתִּֽי׃ the Hittite

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Here: A member of the 'sons of Heth', a local people of Canaan (Gen 10:15; 23:3–20). The label marks Judith as an outsider to Abraham's clan, one of the peoples Abraham would not let Isaac marry into (24:3).

Genesis 36:2 הַֽחִתִּ֔י the Hittite

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Genesis 49:29 הַֽחִתִּֽי׃ the Hittite

Then Jacob instructed them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

Here: Identifies Ephron as one of the 'sons of Heth', a local group living around Hebron in Genesis 23. It completes the title reference; the sentence runs on into verse 30.

Genesis 49:30 הַחִתִּ֖י the Hittite

The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Genesis 50:13 הַחִתִּ֖י the Hittite

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Exodus 3:8 וְהַ֣חִתִּ֔י and the Hittite[s]

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: 'And the Hittite.' In Genesis these are the 'sons of Heth' at Hebron (Gen 23), who have Semitic names. Whether they are connected to the Hittite empire in Anatolia (modern Turkey) is debated.

Exodus 3:17 וְהַ֣חִתִּ֔י and the Hittite[s]

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Here: In Genesis these are the 'sons of Heth' around Hebron, from whom Abraham bought Sarah's tomb (Gen 23). How they relate to the Hittite empire of Anatolia is debated.

Exodus 13:5 וְהַחִתִּ֨י and the Hittite[s]

And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

Here: In the Bible's stories set in Canaan, these are the 'sons of Heth,' a local group in the hill country (Gen 23). How they relate to the great Hittite empire of Anatolia (modern Turkey) is debated.

Exodus 23:23 וְהַ֣חִתִּ֔י and the Hittite[s]

For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

Exodus 23:28 הַחִתִּ֖י the Hittite[s]

I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

Here: 'The Hittite.' In Genesis these are the 'sons of Heth' living around Hebron (Gen 23). They were a local people of Canaan. They should not simply be equated with the great empire based in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

Exodus 33:2 וְהַֽחִתִּי֙ and the Hittite[s]

And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: "And the Hittite." Here this means people living in Canaan who were known as 'sons of Heth' (Gen 23, Hebron). How they relate to the Hittite empire of Anatolia is unclear.

Exodus 34:11 וְהַחִתִּי֙ and the Hittite[s]

Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: 'And the Hittite': in Canaan these are the 'sons of Heth' of the Hebron area (Gen 23). How they relate to the Anatolian Hittite empire is uncertain.

Numbers 13:29 וְ֠הַֽחִתִּי and the Hittite[s]

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

Deuteronomy 7:1 הַֽחִתִּי֩ the Hittite[s]

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Here: 'The Hittite', singular, standing for the whole group. These are Hittites living in Canaan, such as the people of Hebron in Genesis 23, not the Anatolian empire itself (see the studies below).

Deuteronomy 20:17 הַחִתִּ֤י the Hittite[s]

For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Joshua 1:4 הַֽחִתִּ֔ים the Hittites

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.

Here: 'The Hittites'. Here this is a geographical label for greater Syria, the old 'Hatti-land' west of the Euphrates. It is not a small Canaanite clan, and it is not the empire in Turkey as such.

Joshua 3:10 הַחִתִּ֜י the Hittite[s]

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Here: The 'sons of Heth' of the Canaan highlands (e.g. Hebron, Gen 23). Probably a local group or a general label. Most likely not the Anatolian Hittite empire itself (see drift).

Joshua 9:1 הַֽחִתִּי֙ the Hittite[s]

Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

Here: Singular used for the whole people: 'the Hittite[s].' In Joshua this is a group living in Canaan, like Ephron of Hebron in Genesis 23. It is not the Anatolian empire itself.

Joshua 11:3 וְהַחִתִּ֛י and the Hittite[s]

to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

Here: 'And the Hittite': a group living in Canaan's hill country, like Ephron in Genesis 23, not the great empire based in Anatolia (modern Turkey).

Joshua 12:8 הַֽחִתִּי֙ the Hittite[s]

the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

Joshua 24:11 וְהַֽחִתִּי֙ and the Hittite[s]

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

Judges 1:26 הַחִתִּ֑ים the Hittites

And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

Judges 3:5 הַחִתִּ֤י the Hittite[s]

Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Here: A group living in Canaan, known from the ancestor stories (Ephron the Hittite at Hebron, Gen 23). The text does not have the Anatolian empire of Hattusa in view. It means the 'Hittites' who were part of the land's mixed population.

1 Samuel 26:6 הַחִתִּ֗י the Hittite

And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.

2 Samuel 11:3 הַחִתִּֽי׃ the Hittite

So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

2 Samuel 11:6 הַחִתִּ֑י the Hittite

At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

2 Samuel 11:17 הַחִתִּֽי׃ the Hittite

And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

2 Samuel 11:21 הַחִתִּ֖י the Hittite

Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”

2 Samuel 11:24 הַחִתִּ֖י the Hittite

Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”

2 Samuel 12:9 הַֽחִתִּי֙ the Hittite

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

Here: His ethnic tag: a man of foreign, probably Syro-Hittite or old Canaanite 'sons of Heth' descent, serving in David's elite guard (23:39). Repeating it stresses that David wronged an outsider who had joined Israel and was fighting for it.

2 Samuel 12:10 הַחִתִּ֔י the Hittite

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

2 Samuel 23:39 הַֽחִתִּ֔י the Hittite

and Uriah the Hittite. There were thirty-seven in all.

1 Kings 9:20 הַחִתִּ֤י the Hittite[s]

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

1 Kings 10:29 הַחִתִּ֛ים the Hittites

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

1 Kings 11:1 חִתִּיֹּֽת׃ Hittite [women]

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Here: Women from the 'Hittite' kingdoms of northern Syria, the same kings Solomon's horse and chariot trade served (10:29). Hittites head the list of peoples in Deuteronomy 7:1–3, the passage that forbids intermarriage.

1 Kings 15:5 הַחִתִּֽי׃ the Hittite

For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Here: 'The Hittite.' Uriah was a foreigner by descent who served Israel's king more faithfully than the king served him. The verse names him by that identity.

2 Kings 7:6 הַחִתִּ֛ים the Hittites

For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”

Here: Not the old Hittite empire of Anatolia, which had fallen about 300 years earlier. These are the 'Neo-Hittite' kingdoms of northern Syria and southern Turkey (Carchemish, Hamath and others), which lay to Aram's north.

1 Chronicles 11:41 הַחִתִּ֔י the Hittite

Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai,

2 Chronicles 1:17 הַֽחִתִּ֛ים the Hittites

A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

2 Chronicles 8:7 הַחִתִּ֜י the Hittite[s]

As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites)—

Ezra 9:1 הַחִתִּ֜י the Hittite[s]

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Here: One of the old peoples of Canaan in the Torah's lists (Deuteronomy 7:1; compare the 'sons of Heth' in Genesis 23). By Ezra's day no such group existed in Judah, so the name works as a scriptural category.

Nehemiah 9:8 הַחִתִּ֜י the Hittite[s]

You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

Here: In these lists, a group living in Canaan (cf. the sons of Heth at Hebron, Genesis 23), part of the traditional catalogue of the land's former peoples.

Ezekiel 16:3 חִתִּֽית׃ [was] a Hittite

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Here: Feminine and without 'the': 'a Hittite woman.' In the patriarchal stories, Hittite women were the very picture of the wrong marriage partner (Gen 26:34–35; 27:46).

Ezekiel 16:45 חִתִּ֔ית [was] a Hittite

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.