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חִתִּי

chiti · Hittite

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2850 · appears 48 times in the Bible

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What it means

chiti (חִתִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Hittite”.

A descendant of Heth, one of the peoples of Canaan.

How to say it

chi·ti

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. One of the peoples of Canaan.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Hittite: of the sons of Heth, one of the peoples of Canaan. In the singular it designates the whole people in the lists of nations, or a person of that people, like Ephron or Uriah.

Historical and cultural background

Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite the field with the cave of Machpelah to bury Sarah (Genesis 23). Ezekiel says to Jerusalem: “your father {was} the Amorite, and your mother a Hittite” (Ezekiel 16:3).

How we translate it

“Hittite” 41 times and “Hittites” 7. In the lists of the peoples of Canaan the singular is kept, as in the Hebrew (“the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite”, Deuteronomy 7:1), and the plural is used when kings or women of that people are spoken of (“all the kings of the Hittites”, 1 Kings 10:29).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • Hittite ×41
  • Hittites ×7

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 15:20

    the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

  • Genesis 23:10

    Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

  • Genesis 25:9

    His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is facing Mamre,

  • Genesis 26:34

    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 36:2

    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 49:29

    He commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

  • Genesis 49:30

    in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is facing Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place.

  • Genesis 50:13

    his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, the field that Abraham bought as a possession for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, facing Mamre.

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I have come down to rescue them from the hand of Egypt and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Exodus 3:17

    and I have said: I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

  • Exodus 13:5

    When YHWH brings you to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall perform this service in this month.

  • Exodus 23:23

    For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will wipe them out.

  • Exodus 23:28

    I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

  • Exodus 33:2

    And I will send before you an angel, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Keep for yourself what I am commanding you today. Look, I am driving out before you the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Numbers 13:29

    Amalek lives in the land of the Negev; and the Hittite and the Jebusite and the Amorite live in the hill country; and the Canaanite lives by the sea and along the Jordan.”

  • Deuteronomy 7:1

    When YHWH your Elohim brings you into the land into which you are going to take possession of it, and clears away many nations from before you —the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—

  • Deuteronomy 20:17

    but you shall surely devote them to destruction: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you,

  • Joshua 1:4

    From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.

  • Joshua 3:10

    And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that a living El is among you, and that he will certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

  • Joshua 9:1

    And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

  • Joshua 11:3

    the Canaanite in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

  • Joshua 12:8

    in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev: the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • Joshua 24:11

    And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.

  • Judges 1:26

    The man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz; that is its name to this day.

  • Judges 3:5

    So the sons of Israel lived among the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • 1 Samuel 26:6

    David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul, to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”

  • 2 Samuel 11:3

    David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

  • 2 Samuel 11:6

    David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.

  • 2 Samuel 11:17

    The men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the people fell, of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also died.

  • 2 Samuel 11:21

    Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go near to the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”

  • 2 Samuel 11:24

    Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”

  • 2 Samuel 12:9

    Why have you despised the word of YHWH, doing evil in my eyes? Uriah the Hittite you struck with the sword, and his wife you took for yourself as wife, and him you killed with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

  • 2 Samuel 12:10

    And now the sword shall not depart from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’

  • 2 Samuel 23:39

    Uriah the Hittite. In all, thirty-seven.

  • 1 Kings 9:20

    All the people who were left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who were not of the sons of Israel,

  • 1 Kings 10:29

    And a chariot would come up and go out from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so, for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram, by their hand they would bring them out.

  • 1 Kings 11:1

    And King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

  • 1 Kings 15:5

    because David had done what was right in the eyes of YHWH, and had not turned aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 2 Kings 7:6

    Adonai had caused the camp of Aram to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, the sound of a great force; and they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”

And 8 more times.