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STRONGS NUMBER H3667
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
Word Summary
Kna'an: a son of Ham, also his desc. and their land West of the Jordan
Original Word: כִּנַעַןTransliteration: 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, trafficFrom 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 MüllerFr.Hist.Gr.i,17 and others; Egyptian Ka-n-±-na WMMAs.u.Europa,205 ff.; Tel Amarna Kina—na, Kina——i, etc., BezBM Tablets, 150 WklTA 39; etymology dubious GFMPAOS Oct. 1890. lxvii ff.; see also GASmGeogr. 4 f. BuhlGeogr. § 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 vb), 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.