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Meaning of heth | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  2. A surname.
  3. A "son" of Canaan. Progenitor of a Canaanite people known as "The sons of Heth", located in near the city of Hebron.

Equivalents

Deutsch Chet Cheth
Suomi het
Français cheth het heth
עברית ח
Kurdî hêt hêt

Examples

“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,”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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