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Heth



         


Heth (חת, Standard Hebrew Ḥet, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥēṯ) the second of the eleven biblical Canaanite nations. After a misidentification of the land beyond the Euphrates (which the Assyrians called Hatti) with Nesili-Hittite, the Hittite nation was named after him -the name sticking before the identification could be reversed.

See Also: Hittites





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