חִתִּי

1. adjective , of seller of Machpelah to Abraham, עֶפְרוֺן הַחִתִּי 1 Mos 23,10; 1 Mos 49,29; 1 Mos 49,30; 1 Mos 50,13 עֶפְרֹן בֶּןצֹֿחַר ׳הַח 1 Mos 25,9 (all P); of fathers of Esau's wives בְּאֵרִי ׳הַח 1 Mos 26,34 ׳אֵילוֺן הַח v1 Mos 26,34; 1 Mos 36,2 (all P); also of warriors of David, ׳אֲחִימֶלֶךְ הַח 1 Sam 26,6, and especially ׳אוּרִיָּה הַח 2 Sam 11,3; 2 Sam 11,6; 2 Sam 11,17; 2 Sam 11,21; 2 Sam 11,24; 2 Sam 12,9; 2 Sam 12,10; 2 Sam 23,39; 1 Kong 15,5; 1 Kron 11,41 feminine singular = substantive, only of (religious) ancestry of Jerusalem Ezk 16,3 thy father was the Amorite, and thy mother was a Hittite woman חִתִּית, similarly vEzk 16,45 feminine plural = substantive of Solomon's foreign wives, חִתִּיֹּת 1 Kong 11,1 Hittite women (+ מוֺאֲבִיּוֺת, עַמּוֺנִיּוֺת, אֲדֹמִיֹּת, צֵדְנִיֹּת).

2. n. usually
\ \ a. collective הַחִתִּי the Hittites: in lists of Canaanitish peoples 1 Mos 15,20 (JE), 2 Mos 3,8; 2 Mos 3,11 (both J), 2 Mos 13,5; 2 Mos 23,23; 2 Mos 23,28; 2 Mos 33,2; 2 Mos 34,11; 4 Mos 13,29; Jos 3,10 (all J E), 5 Mos 7,1; 5 Mos 20,17; Jos 9,1; Jos 12,8; Jos 24,11 (all D); read also for הַחִוִּי Dom 3,3 (so We Mey Bu^{Urg 350}); in Jos 11,3 (D) strike out הַחִתִּי We Mey Bu^l.c., and read then הַחִתִּי for הַחִוִּי v^b (so ᵐ5, not ᵐ5^L); further 1 Kong 9,20 = 2 Kron 8,7; Ezr 9,1; Neh 9,8.
\ \ b. plural ׃הַחִתִּים כֹּל אֶרֶץ הַחִתִּים Jos 1,4 (D) nearly = land of Canaanites; ׳ארץ הַח specifically of northern home of Hittites Dom 1,26 so also 2 Sam 24,6 where read אֶרֶץ הַחִתִּים קֵ֫דְשָׁה (for ᵑ0 תחתים חָדְשִׁי, see חָדְשִׁי, קֵדֶשׁ); מַלְכֵי הַחִתִּים 1 Kong 10,29 = 2 Kron 1,17 (both + מַלְכֵי אֲרָם), 2 Kong 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 Dl^{1. c}.), and by Egyptians from time of Tutmes III (see W Max Müll.^l.c.) — (compare also Dom 3,3; Jos 11,3 above), but that individual Hittites were known in Israel (compare, besides 1 Sam 2,6; 2 Sam 11,3 etc., 1 Kong 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.