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Son of Canaan, Ham's son; from whence sprung the Hittites, occupying the hill country of Judah near Hebron. But the race enlarged its borders so that they with the Amorites represent all Canaan (; , "thy father was an Amorite, thy mother an Hittite".) See -20. Esau's marriage to one of the daughters of Heth "grieved the mind" of Isaac and Rebekah, for their morals were lax and their worship idolatrous (-35; ). In Solomon's and in Joram's times there were independent Hittite kings (; ). In the Egyptian monuments they are called the Kheta, who made themselves masters of Syria.