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Strong's H2850 חִתִּי (chitti)

Chitti means “Hittite” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2850 — kolakeia (“flattery”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2850
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 47
Books 15

Strong's H2850 Quick Answer

Strong's H2850 חִתּתִּי (Chittiy) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Chittiy (khit-tee') n-m. 1. a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth [patronymically from H2845] It has 47 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include hittite. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Chittiy (khit-tee') n-m. 1. a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth [patronymically from H2845]
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
hittite

Meaning and Definition

Chittiy (khit-tee') n-m. 1. a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth [patronymically from H2845] KJV: Hittite, Hittities. Root(s): H2845

Original Word
חִתּתִּי
Transliteration
Chittiy
Derivation
First root strongs: 2845
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2850. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Hittite

Usage: Someone descended from Heth who was a man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.15; son of: Canaan (H3667); brother of: Sidon (H6721), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577); also called Hittite (KJV: "of Heth") frequently Group of chet (חֵת "Heth" H2845) § Hittite = "descendant of Heth" the nation descended from Heth, the 2nd son of Canaan;

once inhabitants of central Anatolia (modern Turkey), later in north Lebanon

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How Strong's H2850 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Chittiy, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Hittite Genesis 25:9 24×

How Strong's H2850 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 47 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2850 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2850 in the Old Testament

47 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 15:20 KJV

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

Genesis 23:10 KJV

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 25:9 KJV

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2850.

Genesis 15:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Genesis 23:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 25:9 Old Testament, KJV
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
Genesis 26:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Genesis 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis 49:29 Old Testament, KJV
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
Genesis 49:30 Old Testament, KJV
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
Genesis 50:13 Old Testament, KJV
For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Exodus 3:8 Old Testament, KJV
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Exodus 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus 13:5 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
Exodus 23:23 Old Testament, KJV
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Exodus 23:28 Old Testament, KJV
And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Exodus 33:2 Old Testament, KJV
And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Exodus 34:11 Old Testament, KJV
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Numbers 13:29 Old Testament, KJV
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
Deuteronomy 7:1 Old Testament, KJV
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Deuteronomy 20:17 Old Testament, KJV
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
Joshua 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua 3:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
Joshua 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
Joshua 12:8 Old Testament, KJV
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Joshua 24:11 Old Testament, KJV
And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
Judges 1:26 Old Testament, KJV
And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Judges 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
1 Samuel 26:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
2 Samuel 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
2 Samuel 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
2 Samuel 11:21 Old Testament, KJV
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel 11:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
2 Samuel 12:9 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Samuel 23:39 Old Testament, KJV
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
1 Kings 9:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
1 Kings 10:29 Old Testament, KJV
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
1 Kings 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
1 Kings 15:5 Old Testament, KJV
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
2 Kings 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
2 Chronicles 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.
2 Chronicles 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
Ezra 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Nehemiah 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
Ezekiel 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:45 Old Testament, KJV
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2850, grouped by book.

Genesis 8 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 6 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 8 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H2850 FAQ

What does chitti (חִתִּי) mean?

Chitti (Strong's H2850) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Hittite". Chittiy (khit-tee') n-m. 1. a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth [patronymically from H2845]

How many times is chitti (חִתִּי) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's H2850 across 15 books.

Where can I study chitti (חִתִּי) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2850 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate chitti (חִתִּי)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hittite. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.