What does heth mean?
Definitions for heth
hɛt, hɛs, xɛt, xɛsheth
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Princeton's WordNet
hethnoun
the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Wiktionary
hethnoun
The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Wikipedia
Heth
Heth, sometimes written Chet, but more accurately Ḥet, is the eighth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ḥēt
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heth
Heth is the eighth letter of the Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew (Het), and Arabic ('Haa'). It is often used in Hebrew names and words. Additionally, in the context of genealogy or biblical text, Heth might refer to the son of Canaan and the progenitor of the Hittites mentioned in the Genesis in the Bible. The definitions often depend on the context the term is used.
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Heth
Ḥet or H̱et is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician, Syriac ܚ, Hebrew ח, Arabic ح, and Berber ⵃ. It is usually represented in the Latin alphabet by ḥ. Heth originally represented a voiceless fricative, either pharyngeal, or velar. In Arabic, two corresponding letters were created for both phonemic sounds: unmodified ḥāʾ ح represents, while ḫāʾ خ represents. In modern Israeli Hebrew, the historical phonemes of the letters Ḥet ח and Khaf כ merged, both becoming the voiceless uvular fricative. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Eta Η, Etruscan
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heth
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HETH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Heth is ranked #25751 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Heth surname appeared 957 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Heth.
87.8% or 841 total occurrences were White.
6.6% or 64 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
2.1% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
1.1% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.9% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of heth in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of heth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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