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heth (חת, ḥēth): In the ancestor of the Hittites. As the various peoples who occupied Canaan were thought to belong to one stock, () makes Heth the (2nd) son of Canaan. In Gen 23 the “sons of Heth†occupy Hebron, but they were known to have come there from the north. A reference to this seems to be preserved in the order of the names in , , where Heth is placed between Sidon and the Jebusites. See HITTITES.