Heth
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heth¹
Rhymes with -ɛθ
noun heths · chet · cheth · ḥet · ẖet · hheth
- The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Heth²
Where it comes from
Likely of multiple origins, including:
*From an anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Áed.
*From Middle English heeth.
proper noun Heths
- A surname.
Heth³
Where it comes from
From Ecclesiastical Latin Ettheum, from Ancient Greek Χετταῖον (Khettaîon), from Biblical Hebrew חֵת (ḥēṯ).
proper noun
- 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.
