Who were the Hittites in the Bible?
Hittites, the posterity of Heth, the second son of Canaan. Their settlements were at first in the southern part of Judaea, near Hebron, Gen 23:3, and later, when the spies enter the land, they find them dwelling in the mountains. Hittites appears in 5 verses of the Bible.
What does the Bible say about the Hittites?
HIT'TITES, the posterity of Heth, the second son of Canaan. Their settlements were at first in the southern part of Judaea, near Hebron, Gen 23:3, and later, when the spies enter the land, they find them dwelling in the mountains. It was from the Hittites that Abraham purchased Machpelah for a sepulchre. Gen 23:3-13; and in this transaction they are represented as a commercial rather than a warlike people. Esau married two Hittite women. Gen 26:34-35; from all which we gather that they were on terms of intimacy with the family of Abraham. Later in the history of Israel they seem to have lost their national integrity, although the name was not forgotten, Ezr 9:1-2.
Definition text: Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible · 1898. Public domain.
Compiled by Protos: the verse list on this page. Where one name belongs to more than one person or place, each of them gets a separate entry.
What is the Hebrew word for Hittites?
Where does Hittites appear in the Bible?
Hittites is referenced in 5 verses. Every passage below is about this one, not just every verse the word turns up in.
- Genesis 23:3
- Genesis 23:5
- Genesis 23:7
- Genesis 23:18
- Genesis 49:32
What else appears in these passages?
These turn up in the same passages as Hittites.
Common questions
How many times does the Bible mention Hittites?
Hittites appears in 5 verses, all of them in Genesis.
Which books of the Bible mention Hittites?
Just one: Genesis.
Where can I read every verse about Hittites?
This page lists 5 of them. Protos carries all 5, and opens this entry on the verse you are reading rather than in a separate tab.
