Heth
Son of Canaan, in the age of the patriarchs. Named in scripture at Genesis 10:15.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
GenesisExodusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudges1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEzekielCanaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
Genesis 10:15
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:20
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 23:10
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
Genesis 25:9
the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Genesis 25:10
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:34
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
Genesis 27:46
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
Genesis 36:2
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.