Hittite: meaning of the name

Hittite in Hebrew and Greek

Hittite in Scripture

“Hittite” appears in 25 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 23:10

  And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

• Genesis 25:9

  And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

• Genesis 26:34

  And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

• Genesis 36:2

  Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

• Genesis 49:29

  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

• Genesis 50:13

  For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

• Exodus 23:28

  And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.