Heth ben Canaan of the Hittites

• Preferred Name: Heth ben Canaan of the Hittites^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: ancestor of the Hittites - 2nd of the 12 Canaanite nations
  
• Birth: 2316 BC in Hebron, Israel at LATI: N1.5 LONG: E4.75
  
• Death: Y
  
• Residence: Canaan: ranges from Sidon to Gerar, to Gaza, ubtoo Sodom and Gomorah, to Admah, Zeboim to Lasha.
  
• FSID: L2M1-JKK
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Heth is, according to Genesis 10:15, the second son of Canaan, who is son of Ham, son of Noah. Heth is the ancestor of the Hittites, second of the twelve Canaanite nations descended from his sons, who lived near Hebron (Genesis 23:3,7).
  
  In Genesis 10:15-16, Heth is placed between Sidon and the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, Hivites, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite, Hamathite and other peoples, showing their descent through their children, called "Children of Heth"(Genesis 23:3, 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20).
  
  Heth means Terror.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heth_(Bible)
  
  === Heth was, without question, the father o ===
  Heth was, without question, the father of the Hittites. Except for the work of archaeologists, however, we should never have known how important the descendants of this man really were at one point in history, for the Hittite empire disappeared completely from view - or nearly completely. This qualification is necessary if we allow any weight to an observation made by C.R.Conder. (99) It was his contention that when the Hittite empire crumbled, all the Hittites of importance were either killed or fled eastward. Conder's view was that the word Hittite, which appears in Cuneiform as Khittae, was borne by the fleeing remnant of this once powerful nation to the Far East and was preserved through the centuries in the more familiar form Cathay. (100) He assumes that they became a not unimportant part of early Chinese stock. Certainly, there are curious links between them - for example, their modes of dress, their shoes with turned-up toes, their manner of doing their hair in a pigtail, and so forth. Representations show them to have possessed high cheekbones, and craniologists have observed that they had not a few characteristics of Mongoloids. More recently, another possible corroborating link appears in the discovery that the Hittites mastered the art of casting iron and the taming of horses, two achievements of great importance, and recurring very early in Chinese history (101) - long before reaching the West. It should be observed that linguistic evidence exists for a Japhetic component in the Hittite empire. (102) In view of the fact that their initial expansion took place in Asia Minor, it is not too surprising that there may have been a mixture of races within the Empire. It could well be that there was an Indo-European aristocracy, just as at one point in Egyptian history there was a Shepherd King (Semite) aristocracy. George Barton observed: (103) Some features of their speech clearly resemble features of the Indo-European family of languages, but other features seem to denote Tartar (i.e., Mongol) affinities. In a number of instances the influence of the Assyrian language can clearly be traced. The same confusion presents itself when we study the picture of Hittites as they appear in Egyptian reliefs. Two distinct types of face are there portrayed. One type has high cheekbones, oblique eyes, and wears a pigtail, like the people of Mongolia and China. The other has a cleancut head and face which resemble somewhat the early Greeks. Arthur Custance
  
  === He was an ancient chieftain whose family ===
  He was an ancient chieftain whose family-clan became known as Hittites.These Hittites were inhabitants of the mountains in Judah, and laterbecame adversaries of the Israelites. Abraham dealt with some of Heth'sfamily when he bought the cave of Machpelah. (Everyone in the Bible, byWilliam P. Barker, 1966) He was the progenitor of the Hittite nation, whose name was known to theAssyrians as the Khatti. The Hittites were apparently the first nationto smelt iron. The Armarna tablets contain letters that were sent fromthe Hittite emperor Subbiluliuma to the Pharoah Amenhotep IV. Rameses IIalso tells us how he engaged the Hittites in what was the earliestrecorded battle involving massed chariots. This was the famous battle ofKadesh, and it appears that the Hittites got the better of the Egyptianforces. Heth's name was perpetuated in the Hittite capital Hattushash;that is, modern Boghazkoy in Turkey. (Internet:www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation01.htm)
  
  === Bible ===
  Genesis 10-15

1. Elon Ben Heth I, b. 2294 BC    
2. (NN) ... (NN) BEN HETH HETHITE (HITTITE),    
3. Hittites of Heth Ben Heth, b. 2292 BC    

1. Title: Jasher 7:13
   Author: J.H. Parry & Company. (1887). The Book of Jasher. (Originally translated in 1840 from the Original Hebrew into English).
   Publication: Name: https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-of-Jasher.pdf;
   Note: 13. And the sons of Canaan were Zidon, Heth, Amori, Gergashi, Hivi, Arkee, Seni, Arodi, Zimodi and Chamothi.
   Page: Heth is the son of Canaan.
   
2. Title: A Hebrew-English Bible According to the Masoretic Text and the JPS 1917 Edition: Genesis 10
   Publication: Name: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0110.htm#1;