Who is…
Heth

Meaning: dread

This is the name of a male descendant of Canaan (son of Ham and grandson of Noah), and the ancestor of the Hittites (Genesis 10:18; Deuteronomy 7:1), who dwelt in the vicinity of Hebron (Genesis 23:3, 7).

The Hittites were a Hamitic race. They are called “the sons of Heth” (Genesis 23:3, 5, 7, 10, 16, 18, 20).

The “prince of Shechem” named Hamor is a descendant of Heth. It is, more specifically, Hamor’s sons who sold an important field and the Cave of Machpelah to Abraham at Shechem, which Abraham and his descendants used as a patriarchal tomb.