heth (cheth): InGe 23:10the ancestor of the Hittites. As the various peoples who occupied Canaan were thought to belong to one stock,Ge 10:15(1Ch 1:13) makes Heth the (2nd) son of Canaan. InGe 23the "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 inGe 10:15,16, where Heth is placed between Sidon and the Jebusites.
SeeHITTITES.