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
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- Occupation
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- 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.