Strong's Hebrew: 3667. כִּנַעַן (Kna'an) -- a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West of the Jordan

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Lexical Summary

Kna'an: a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West of the Jordan

Original Word: כִּנַעַן
Transliteration: Kna'an
Phonetic Spelling: (ken-ah'-an)
Part of Speech: proper name, masculine; proper name, masculine; noun masculine
Short Definition: a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West of the Jordan
Meaning: Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan

Strong's Concordance

Canaan, merchant, traffic

From kana'; humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him -- Canaan, merchant, traffick.

see HEBREW kana'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3667. Kna

'an I. כְּנַ֫עַן‎₉₀ proper name, masculine and

of a territory Canaan (ᵐ5‎ Ξανααν, Phoenician כנען‎ = Phoenicia; Ξνα = כנע‎, Hecataeus, see Müller^{Fr.Hist.Gr.i,17} and others; Egyptian Ka-n-±-na WMM^{As.u.Europa,205 ff.}; Tel Amarna Kina—na, Kina——i, etc., Bez^{BM Tablets, 150} Wkl^{TA 39}; etymology dubious GFM^{PAOS Oct. 1890. lxvii ff.}; see also GASm^{Geogr. 4 f.} Buhl^{Geogr. § 42}); — 1 as

proper name, masculine, son of Ham Genesis 9:18, 22, 25, 27; 10:15 (as ancestor of Canaanites and Phoenicians; all J); 10:6 (P); 1 Chronicles 1:8, 13 (from Genesis 10:6, 15).

2. a. land, west of Jordan, into which Hebrews came, and where they settled, subduing the inhabitants; כְּנַעַן מַלְכֵי‎ Judges 5:19, כ ׳מלך‎ 4:2, 23, 24 (twice in verse); hence כ ׳מַמְלְכוֺת‎ Psalm 135:11; כ ׳ישְׁבֵי‎ Exodus 15:15 (song in E); compare כ ׳מִלְחֲמוֺת‎ Judges 3:1; כ ׳עֲצַבֵּי‎ Psalm 106:38 idols of Canaan, i.e. of the former inhabitants; especially כ ׳אַרְצָה כ, (ֿ) ׳אֶרֶץ‎ Genesis 44:8; 46:31; 47:1, 4, 13, 14, 15; 50:5, 13 (all J), 35:6; 42:5, 7, 13, 29, 32; 45:17, 25; Joshua 24:3 (all E), Genesis 11:31; 12:5 (twice in verse); 13:12 (opposed to הַכִּכָּר עָרֵי‎ v^b), 16:3; 17:8 (all P) + 40 t. P, Judges 21:12; 1 Chronicles 16:18 = Psalm 105:11; also כ ׳הָאָרֶץ‎ Numbers 34:2 (P); כ ׳בְּנוֺת‎ Genesis 28:1 daughters of Canaan = women of the land, so 28:6; 28:8; 36:2 (all P); כנען‎ is personified Hosea 12:8 = apostate Israel; כ ׳שְׂפַת‎ Isaiah 19:18 = the Hebrew language (without evil implication).

b. the coast, especially Phoenicia Isaiah 23:11; compare ׳כ מְּלִשְׁתִּים אֶרֶץ‎ Zephaniah 2:5.

II. כְּנָ֫עַן‎ noun [masculine] merchant (s) (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were traders); — כְּנַעַן כָּלעַֿם‎ Zephaniah 1:11; כ ׳אֶרֶץ‎ Ezekiel 16:29 (omitted by ᵐ5‎ B and others Co), 17:4 a land of merchants; compare כנעני‎ near the end.

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