Watch how the men of Hebron address the grieving widower. In Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 23:6, the Hittite elders say to Abraham: Great before the Lord art thou among us, in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead.
The Hebrew title is nesi Elohim — prince of God. The Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan renders it with the quieter but equally striking rav kadam Adonai, great before the Lord. It is not a dynastic title. It is a recognition that this stranger from Mesopotamia walks with heaven visibly beside him.
Abraham has not fought a war in Hebron. He has not built a palace. Yet the city's elders offer him the choicest graves among their own dead. The hospitality is striking because it is entirely unearned by conquest.
This is the Targum's portrait of kiddush Hashem — the sanctification of God's name through daily conduct. Abraham's reputation, built over decades of hospitality and honesty, has prepared this moment. The Hittites are offering him their best because he has given them his best.
The Maggidim read this verse as the quiet answer to a question the Torah does not ask: how do you become a prince of God? Not by being crowned. By being trusted. The takeaway: the respect a stranger shows you in grief is the report card of how you lived when nothing was on the line.