How many times is Hittites mentioned in the Bible?
The word Hittites appears 22 times in the King James Version, in 22 verses. Counting every form (Hittites, Hittite), it appears 48 times in 47 verses across 15 of the 66 books. The World English Bible uses Hittites 10 times (46 with every form).
Hittites in the King James Version and the World English Bible
Each form of Hittites counted in each translation.
| Form | KJV | WEB |
|---|---|---|
| Hittites | 22 | 10 |
| Hittite | 26 | 36 |
| Total | 48 | 46 |
Which books mention Hittites most
Hittites appears in 15 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Genesis has the most (9), then 2 Samuel (8) and Exodus (7).
First and last mention of Hittites
And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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.
The verse that uses it most is Genesis 26:34, 2 times:
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:
Where the two translations differ
2 verses match in the KJV but not in the World English Bible, and 0 verses match only in the World English Bible, usually because the other translation chose a different word there.
2 Samuel 11:3: counted in the KJV only
And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”
2 Samuel 12:10: counted in the KJV only
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.
Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken Uriah the Hittite’s wife to be your wife.’
Verses with Hittites on our topic pages
3 verses that use Hittites in the World English Bible are in our topic collections.
Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
Common questions
How many times is Hittites in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
In the King James Version, counting every form, 48 of the 48 uses are in the Old Testament and 0 in the New Testament. Hittites appears in 15 books of the 66 in the King James Version. Genesis has the most (9), then 2 Samuel (8) and Exodus (7).
Where is Hittites first mentioned in the Bible?
The first use in the King James Version is Genesis 15:20: "And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims," The last is Ezekiel 16:45.
More word counts: Amalekites, Midianites, Ammonites, Jebusites, Edomites, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, or all 484 words.
Counted by Bible Says About from the full public-domain text of the King James Version (1769 edition) and the World English Bible. Verse text only: headings and psalm titles are left out. A word is a run of letters: a hyphenated name like Beer-sheba counts as two, and an apostrophe stays inside its word (LORD'S is one). Matching ignores capital letters. Data compiled 2026-10-22.