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What Is Hittite in the Bible?

Person

From an ancient people who lived in Canaan. Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, was a Hittite.

Where it appears in the Bible

Genesis 23:10; 2 Samuel 11:3

What the Bible says

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron dwelt in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron made answer to Abraham in the hearing of all that went in at the gate of the city, saying:

2 Samuel 11:3

And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “hitita”; 2 Samuel 11:3

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