Strong's Hebrew · H2845

H2845 Chêth

חֵת

khayth

Heth.

When Chêth is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

Cheth, an aboriginal Canaanite

Derivation

from H2865 (חָתַת); terror;

Appears 14 times in Scripture

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Genesis 23:16

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

Genesis 23:10

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

Genesis 23:18

to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.

Genesis 23:7

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

Genesis 25:10

This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

Genesis 23:20

So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.

Genesis 23:3

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

Genesis 10:15

And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,

When Chêth is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what Chêth means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Genesis 23:5 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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