Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heth

/hˈɛθ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: heth
IPA: /hˈɛθ/

10

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

name

name

A "son" of Canaan. Progenitor of a Canaanite people known as "The sons of Heth", located in near the city of Hebron.

Example Sentences

"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,"

Etymology

Likely of multiple origins, including: *From an anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Áed. *From Middle English heeth.

Origin

Source language: Scottish Gaelic

Word Breakdown

Root: Áed, heeth, Ettheum, Χετταῖον, חֵת

Inflected Forms

heths (plural) chet (alternative) cheth (alternative) ḥet (alternative) ẖet (alternative) hheth (alternative) het (alternative) khet (alternative) kheth (alternative)

Phrases

בְּנֵי חֵת

Rhymes With

death breath seth beth meth macbeth sheth marybeth mcbeth neth speth peth

Questions

How do you pronounce heth?: The recorded pronunciation is /hˈɛθ/.
What does heth mean?: The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Where does heth come from?: It is traced to Scottish Gaelic.

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