Hittites

The Hittites appear in Abraham's Machpelah purchase; Genesis 50 recalls that Abraham bought the burial site from Ephron the Hittite where Jacob is buried.

Meaning
Occupation
First mention
Genesis 15:20

Scripture references

  • Genesis 15:20

    the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

  • Genesis 23:3

    Abraham spoke to the Hittites,

  • Genesis 23:10

    Ephron was sitting among the Hittites...

  • Genesis 23:20

    the field and the cave in it passed from the Hittites into Abraham's possession...

  • Genesis 26:34

    When Esau was forty years old he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

  • Genesis 26:35

    These were a bitter disappointment to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • Genesis 27:46

    Rebekah said to Isaac, 'The Hittite women sicken me to death. If Jacob were to marry a Hittite woman like these, one of the local women, what would there be left in life for me?'

  • Genesis 49:32

    the field and the cave in it which were bought from the Hittites.'

  • Genesis 50:13

    His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.