name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
heth
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Sound
Pronunciation
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rhymes with -ɛθ
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 TH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A "son" of Canaan. Progenitor of a Canaanite people known as "The sons of Heth", located in near the city of Hebron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
Examples
- And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
- And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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noun
Meaning 3
The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
History
Etymology
Likely of multiple origins, including: *From an anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Áed. *From Middle English heeth.
From Ecclesiastical Latin Ettheum, from Ancient Greek Χετταῖον (Khettaîon), from Biblical Hebrew חֵת (ḥēṯ).
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: het — Semitic letter
- Finnish: het — Semitic letter
- French: hèt — Semitic letter
- French: cheth — Semitic letter
- French: het — Semitic letter
- French: heth — Semitic letter
- German: Chet — Semitic letter
- German: Cheth — Semitic letter
- Hebrew: חי״ת \ חֵית (khet) — Semitic letter
- Yiddish: חית (khes) — Semitic letter