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Hittite   /hˈɪtaɪt/  /hˈɪtˌaɪt/   Listen
Hittite

noun
1.
A member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC.
2.
The language of the Hittites and the principal language of the Anatolian group of languages; deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions.



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"Hittite" Quotes from Famous Books



... is made of money. Sarah was dead, and Abraham was sojourning among strangers in a strange land. He mourned for his wife, and stood up before the sons of Heth, and begged of them to intercede with Ephron, the Hittite, for the cave of Machpelah, as a burial place. Ephron liberally offered him the cave and the field, but the patriarch insisted upon payment; whereupon the Hittite answered: 'My lord, hearken unto me; the land is worth four hundred shekels ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... Elamites, eventually compelled him to fly to his ancestral domains in the marshes of southern Babylonia. Sargon, who meanwhile had crushed the confederacy of the northern nations, had taken (717 B.C.) the Hittite stronghold of Carchemish and had annexed the future kingdom of Ecbatana, was now accepted as king by the Babylonian priests and his claim to be the successor of Sargon of Akkad acknowledged up to the time of his murder ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... into it. And I do not know what has been the result of your mistake, but with me it has been war. I have been like a small province in rebellion, burning and slaying all within my borders. I am a heathen Hittite in father's vineyard. I have profaned all his scriptures and confounded all his doctrines, until I think now the only boon he prays ...
— The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance • Paul Elmer More


Words linked to "Hittite" :   Anatolian language, Indo-Hittite, indweller, Anatolian, denizen, habitant, dweller, inhabitant


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