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חִתִּי adjective and name, of a people Hittite(s) (Egyptian –-tá, –etá W Max MüllAsien u. Europa, 319 ff.; Assyrian –atti , SchrKG 192 ff. COT on Gen 10:19 DlPa, 269 ff.; Tel el-Amarna –atti, –atta BezTel el Amarn. Brit. Mus. 150) — masculine always with article הַחִתִּי Gen 23:10; Exod 3:8 +; feminine חִתִּית Ezek 16:3; Ezek 16:45 masculine plural הַחִתִּים Josh 1:4 + 3 t.; feminine plural חִתִּיֹּת 1Kgs 11:1 —
1.
adjective, of seller of Machpelah to Abraham, עֶפְרוֺן הַחִתִּי
Gen 23:10; Gen 49:29; Gen 49:30; Gen 50:13
עֶפְרֹן בֶּןצֹֿחַר
׳
הַח
Gen 25:9 (all
P
); of fathers of Esau's wives בְּאֵרִי
׳
הַח
Gen 26:34
׳
אֵילוֺן הַח Gen 26:34; Gen 36:2 (all
P
); also of warriors of David, ׳
אֲחִימֶלֶךְ הַח
1Sam 26:6, and
especially ׳
אוּרִיָּה הַח
2Sam 11:3; 2Sam 11:6; 2Sam 11:17;
2Sam 11:21;
2Sam 11:24;
2Sam 12:9; 2Sam 12:10;
2Sam 23:39;
1Kgs 15:5; 1Chr 11:41
feminine singular = substantive, only of (religious) ancestry of Jerusalem Ezek 16:3
thy father was the Amorite, and thy mother was a Hittite woman
חִתִּית, similarly Ezek 16:45 feminine plural = substantive of Solomon's foreign wives,
חִתִּיֹּת
1Kgs 11:1
Hittite women (+ מוֺאֲבִיּוֺת, עַמּוֺנִיּוֺת,
אֲדֹמִיֹּת, צֵדְנִיֹּת).
2.
noun usually
a. collective הַחִתִּי
the Hittites: in lists of Canaanitish peoples Gen 15:20 (
J
E
), Exod 3:8
;
Exod 3:11 (both
J
), Exod 13:5
; Exod
23:23
; Exod
23:28
; Exod 33:2
;
Exod 34:11;
Num 13:29;
Josh 3:10 (all
J
E
), Deut 7:1
;
Deut 20:17;
Josh 9:1; Josh 12:8; Josh 24:11
(all
D
); read also for הַחִוִּי
Judg 3:3 (so
We
Mey
BuUrg 350); in Josh 11:3 (
D
) strike out הַחִתִּי
We
Mey
Bul.c., and read then הַחִתִּי for
הַחִוִּי vb (so
ᵐ5
, not
ᵐ5
L
); further
1Kgs 9:20 =
2Chr
8:7; Ezra 9:1
; Neh 9:8.
b. plural ׃הַחִתִּים
כֹּל אֶרֶץ הַחִתִּים
Josh 1:4 (
D
) nearly = land of Canaanites; ׳
ארץ הַח specifically of northern home of Hittites Judg 1:26 so also 2Sam 24:6 where read אֶרֶץ
הַחִתִּים
קֵ֫דְשָׁה (for
ᵑ0
תחתים חָדְשִׁי, see
חָדְשִׁי
, קֵדֶשׁ); מַלְכֵי הַחִתִּים
1Kgs 10:29
=
2Chr 1:17
(both +
מַלְכֵי אֲרָם), 2Kgs 7:6 (+ מַלְכֵי מִצְרַיִם, both feared by אֲרָם
). Hence it appears that הַחִתִּי (םׅ had their proper seat in the north — where also
they
were encountered by Assyrians from time of Tiglath-Pileser I (see
Schr
Dl1. c.), and by Egyptians from time of Tutmes III (see
W Max Müll.l.c.) — (compare also Judg 3:3; Josh 11:3 above), but that individual
Hittites were known in Israel (compare, besides 1Sam 2:6; 2Sam 11:3 etc., 1Kgs 9:20 above); that the Hittites were regarded (by
J
E
D
) as one of the peoples of Canaan, and that the name even came to be used in more general sense for
Canaanites. Only in
P
do they appear as having a definite settlement in the south, and are designated by בְּנֵיחֵֿת
(see
חֵת
), as well as by the adjective הַחִתִּי.