Word Summary
Kananitēs: Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles
Original Word: ΚανανίτηςTransliteration: Kananitēs
Phonetic Spelling: (kan-an-ee'-tace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Cananaean, Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles
Meaning: Cananaean -- Aramaic for Zealot, surname of one of the twelve apostles
Strong's Concordance
Canaanite.
Of Chaldee origin (compare qanna'); zealous; Cananites, an epithet -- Canaanite (by mistake for a derivative from Chanaan).
see GREEK Chanaan
see HEBREW qanna'
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2581: ΚανανίτηςΚανανίτης,
Κανανιτου,
ὁ (from Chaldean
קַנְאָן, Hebrew
קָנָא), equivalent to
ὁ ζηλωτής (according to the interpr. of Luke in
, Acts 1:13), which see, the Zealot, a surname of the apostle Simon R G (the latter with a small kappa κ') in Matthew 10:4 and Mark 3:18.