Χαναάν

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5477, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• כנען Kᵉnaʻan H3667 Canaan

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• כנענה Kᵉnaʻănâh H3668 Chenaanah
• כנעני Kᵉnaʻanîy H3669 Canaanite
• Χανααναιος Chanaanaîos G5478 Canaanite

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Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Canaan). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18).

(2.) The country which derived its name from the preceding. The name as first used by the Phoenicians denoted only the maritime plain on which Sidon was built. But in the time of Moses and Joshua it denoted the whole country to the west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea (Deut. 11:30). In Josh. 5:12 the LXX. read, "land of the Phoenicians," instead of "land of Canaan."

The name signifies "the lowlands," as distinguished from the land of Gilead on the east of Jordan, which was a mountainous district. The extent and boundaries of Canaan are fully set forth in different parts of Scripture (Gen. 10:19; 17:8; Num. 13:29; 34:8). (See CANAANITES, PALESTINE.)

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(Ca'nan) (low, flat).

+ The fourth son of Ham, (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) the progenitor of the Phoenicians [Zidon, Or Sidon], and of the various nations who before the Israelite conquest people the seacoast of Palestine, and generally the while of the country westward of the Jordan. (Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:13) (B.C. 2347.) + The name "Canaan" is sometimes employed for the country itself.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues

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The same Greek word Χανααν appears 92 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 87 verses in 13 books.

92

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

87

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

13 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 9:18 χανααν
• Exodus 12:40 χανααν
• Leviticus 18:3 χανααν
• Numbers 13:17 χανααν
• Deuteronomy 11:30 χανααν
• Joshua 13:4 χανααν
• Judges 3:1 χανααν
• 1 Chronicles 1:8 χανααν
• Psalms 104:11 χανάαν
• Isaiah 23:11 χανααν
• Ezekiel 16:3 χανααν
• Hosea 12:8 χανααν

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5477) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 87. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 9:18 χανααν The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
• Genesis 9:22 χανααν Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
• Genesis 9:25 χανααν He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
• Genesis 9:26 χανααν He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.
• Genesis 9:27 χανααν God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant."
• Genesis 10:6 χανααν The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
• Genesis 10:15 χανααν Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
• Genesis 11:31 χανααν Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.
• Genesis 12:5 χανααν Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
• Genesis 13:12 χανααν Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
• Genesis 16:3 χανααν Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
• Genesis 17:8 χανααν I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
• Genesis 23:2 χανααν Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
• Genesis 23:19 χανααν After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 28:1 χανααν Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
• Genesis 28:6 χανααν Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
• Genesis 28:8 χανααν Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
• Genesis 31:18 χανααν and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 33:18 χανααν Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
• Genesis 35:6 χανααν So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
• Genesis 35:27 χανααν Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
• Genesis 36:5 χανααν Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 36:6 χανααν Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his cattle, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
• Genesis 37:1 χανααν Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 42:5 χανααν The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 42:7 χανααν Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
• Genesis 42:13 χανααν They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
• Genesis 42:29 χανααν They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
• Genesis 42:32 χανααν We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
• Genesis 44:8 χανααν Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then should we steal silver or gold out of your lord's house?
• Genesis 45:17 χανααν Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 45:25 χανααν They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
• Genesis 46:6 χανααν They took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt-- Jacob, and all his seed with him,
• Genesis 46:12 χανααν The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
• Genesis 46:31 χανααν Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
• Genesis 47:1 χανααν Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen."
• Genesis 47:4 χανααν They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
• Genesis 47:13 χανααν There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
• Genesis 47:14 χανααν Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
• Genesis 47:15 χανααν When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."
• Genesis 48:3 χανααν Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
• Genesis 48:7 χανααν As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
• Genesis 49:30 χανααν 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.
• Genesis 50:5 χανααν 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
• Genesis 50:11 χανααν When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore, the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
• Genesis 50:13 χανααν for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
• Exodus 12:40 χανααν Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
• Exodus 15:15 χανααν Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
• Leviticus 18:3 χανααν You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived: and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; neither shall you walk in their statutes.
• Leviticus 25:38 χανααν I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5477) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.