Heth (disambiguation)

For the letter Heth in the Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, see Heth (letter).

Heth (חֵת, 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.