Heth

In the Table of Nations (Gen 10:15; 1Chr 1:13) the son of Canaan and great-grandson of Noah, and the eponymous ancestor of the Hittites. The Hittites witnessed Abraham’s purchase of the cave of Machpelah from Ephron (Gen 23:6; Gen 23:16; Gen 23:18). Rebekah was annoyed by Esau’s marriage to a Hittite woman (Gen 27:46). Ezekiel describes Jerusalem’s ancestry with the words “your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite” (Ezek 16:3; Ezek 16:45).