Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The eighth letter () of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in sound to the Scotch ch in loch. Its numerical value is 8.

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  • noun The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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  • noun the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hebrew ḥêt, of Phoenician origin.]

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Examples

  • Schliefer's analysis is speculative but intriguing, for he notes on page 2 that the letter "heth" (ח) of the word "grace" (חן = chen) introduces an "h," and he suggests that a quote from Hackluyt supplied by Melville shortly prior to the erroneous "grace" offers a clue that the 'error' is intentional:

    Gypsy Scholar 2009

  • Ableitung aus einem *malit, vgl. heth. melit, luw. mallit-, wobei das Suffix noch unklar ist: Dat-Lok.

    Missing honey 2010

  • He heth there, near to the church, a very considerable great house, called the Castle of Douglas; and near the church is a fyne village called the town of Douglass, long since erected in a burgh of baronie.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience heth shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer [without effective and peaceful means of real change] while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

    The New, Revised, Declaration of Independence 2008

  • It heth ane handsome church, with many ancient monuments and inscriptions on the old, interments of the Earles of this place.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • Hack an axe, hook an oxe, hath an an, heth hith ences.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • In order to help with your baHth (bah-heth; search), you should be familiar with the verbs baHatha (bah-hah-thah; searched) and yabHathu (yab-hah-thoo; searching).

    Arabic for Dummies Bouchentouf, Amine 2006

  • Et si quando nationis alterius quis ad legem conuertitur Sarracenorum, dum a flamine eorum recipiendus est, dicit et facit eum Dei nuncium, et repetit sic: Lællech ella alla Mahomet zoyzel alla heth: quod valet tantum: Non est Deus nisi vnus, et Mahomet fuit eius nuncius.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • To Muslims the Sahhada hh=the letter heth is similar to what the Shema is to us.

    Jewish Groups Move To Ban Islamic Stoles @ UC Irvine | Jewschool 2004

  • Et si quando nationis alterius quis ad legem conuertitur Sarracenorum, dum a flamine eorum recipiendus est, dicit et facit eum Dei nuncium, et repetit sic: L鎙lech ella alla Mahomet zoyzel alla heth: quod valet tantum: Non est Deus nisi vnus, et Mahomet fuit eius nuncius.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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