כְּנַ֫עַן
Canaan
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Proper 93 times (99%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (1%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 94 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3667 appears — 91 distinct verses across 13 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 45 verses
- Genesis 9:18 כְנָֽעַן n Proper The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:22 כְנַ֔עַן n Proper Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 9:25 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
- Genesis 9:26 כְנַ֖עַן n Proper He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.
- Genesis 9:27 כְנַ֖עַן n Proper God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant."
- Genesis 10:6 וּ/כְנָֽעַן conj + n Proper The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- Genesis 10:15 וּ/כְנַ֗עַן conj + n Proper Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
- Genesis 11:31 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן כְּנָֽעַן n Proper n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper 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 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 28:6 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.
- Genesis 31:18 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 36:2 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
- Genesis 36:5 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 42:5 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 42:7 כְּנַ֖עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,
- Genesis 42:32 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 45:25 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
- Genesis 46:6 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֖עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַעַן֒ n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- Genesis 48:7 כְּנַ֨עַן֙ n Proper 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 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper '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 50:13 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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 3 verses
- Exodus 6:4 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
- Exodus 15:15 כְנָֽעַן n Proper Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
- Exodus 16:35 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 14:34 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper "When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,
- Leviticus 18:3 כְּנַ֡עַן n Proper 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 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper 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.
Numbers 11 verses
- Numbers 13:2 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper Send you men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, everyone a prince among them.
- Numbers 13:17 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
- Numbers 26:19 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 32:30 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 32:32 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan.
- Numbers 33:40 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 33:51 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 34:2 כְּנָ֑עַן כְּנַ֖עַן n Proper n Proper Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders of it),
- Numbers 34:29 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 35:10 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 35:14 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 8 verses
- Joshua 5:12 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Joshua 14:1 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
- Joshua 21:2 כְּנַ֨עַן֙ n Proper and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle.
- Joshua 22:9 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Joshua 22:10 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look on.
- Joshua 22:11 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:32 כְּנַ֖עַן n Proper Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
- Joshua 24:3 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Judges 6 verses
- Judges 3:1 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Judges 4:2 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
- Judges 4:23 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
- Judges 4:24 כְּנָ֑עַן כְּנָֽעַן n Proper n Proper The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
- Judges 5:19 כְנַ֔עַן n Proper The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan. In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of money.
- Judges 21:12 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 1:8 וּ/כְנָֽעַן conj + n Proper The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- 1 Chronicles 1:13 וּ/כְנַ֗עַן conj + n Proper Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
- 1 Chronicles 16:18 כְּנָ֔עַן n Proper Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
Psalms 3 verses
- Psalms 105:11 כְּנָ֑עַן n Proper Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;"
- Psalms 106:38 כְנָ֑עַן n Proper They shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
- Psalms 135:11 כְּנָֽעַן n Proper Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan,
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 19:18 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.
- Isaiah 23:8 כִּנְעָנֶ֖י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
- Isaiah 23:11 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 16:29 כְּנַ֖עַן n Proper You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.
- Ezekiel 17:4 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
Hosea 1 verse
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 1:11 כְּנַ֔עַן n Proper Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
- Zephaniah 2:5 כְּנַ֨עַן֙ n Proper Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
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At its core, כנען (Kᵉnaʻan) means “Canaan.” It first appears in Genesis 9:18. Spanning 91 verses in 13 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Genesis (49% of all occurrences). Dig into 91-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H3667 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 91
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 91 distinct verses.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #440
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 440 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 91 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 91 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 63 verses · 69%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 22 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Canaan 87×
- American Standard Version†: Canaan 84×, Let canaan 2×, Traffic 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Canaan 82×, Canaanite 3×, Merchants 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Canaan 90×, Merchant 2×, The 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3667 across 94† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3667 across 94† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3667 across 91† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 3 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3667 across 96† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
כנען I m. et terr. Canaan (𝔊 Χανααν, Ph. כנען = Phoenicia
- 1. as n.pr.m., son of Ham Gn 9:18, 22, 25, 27; 10:15 (as ancestor of Canaanites and Phoenicians; all J); 10:6 (P); 1 Ch 1:8, 13 (from Gn 10:6, 15). e.g. Genesis 9:18
- 2.
- a. land, W. of Jordan, into wh. Hebrews came, and where they settled, subduing the inhabitants; מַלְכֵי כְּנַעַן Ju 5:19, מלך כ׳ Ju 4:2, 23, 24(×2); hence מַמְלְכוֹת כ׳ ψ 135:11; ישְׁבֵי כ׳ Ex 15:15 (song in E); cf. מִלְחֲמוֹת כ׳ Ju 3:1; עֲצַבֵּי כ׳ ψ 106:38 idols of Canaan, i. e. of the former inhabitants; especially אֶרֶץ(־) כ׳, אַרְצָה כ׳ Gn 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 Jos 24:3 (all E), Gn 11:31; 12:5(×2); 13:12 (opp. עָרֵי הַכִּכָּר v b), 16:3; 17:8 (P) +, Jos 22:9, 10, 11 (P) Ju 21:12 1 Ch 16:18 = ψ 105:11; also הָאָרֶץ כ׳ Nu 34:2 (P); בְּנוֹת כ׳ Gn 28:1 daughters of Canaan = women of the land, so v 6, 8; 36:2 (all P); כנען is personif. Ho 12:8 = apostate Israel; שְׂפַת כ׳ Is 19:18 = the Hebrew lang. (without evil implication). e.g. Judges 5:19
- b. the coast, especially Phoenicia Is 23:11; cf. כ׳ אֶרֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּים Zp 2:5. e.g. Isaiah 23:11
כנען II [m.] merchant(s) (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were traders)
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pr.m. et terr. Canaan (𝔊 Χανααν, Ph. כנען = Phoenicia; Χνα = כנע, Hecataeus, v. MüllerFr. Hist. Gr. i, 17 al.; Egyptian Ka-n-ʿ-nḁ WMMAsien u. Europa, 205 ff.; Tel Amarna Kina̮hna, Kinaḫḫi, etc., BezoldBM Tablets, 150 WklTA 39; etym. dub. GFMPAOS Oct. 1890, lxvii ff.; v. also GASmGeogr. 4 f. BuhlGeogr. § 42);—
II. n.[m.] merchant(s) (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were traders);—כָּל־עַם כְּנַעַן Zp 1:11; אֶרֶץ כ׳ Ez 16:29 (om. 𝔊 B al. Co), 17:4 a land of merchants; cf. כנעני ad fin.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כנע (kânaʻ) (H3665) — to humble.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
כְּנַעַן
- (b. h.) pr. n. Canaan,
- 1. son of Ham. Gen. R. s. 36 חם חטא וכ׳ וכ׳ Ham sinned and C. was cursed?; Tanḥ. Noah 15; a. e.
- 2. the land of Canaan. R. Hash. 3ᵃ כ׳ על שם מלכותו (Sihon is named) C. from his kingdom; a. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H3667 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּנָ֑עַן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:4 | 27 |
| כְּנַ֔עַן | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 32:49 | 23 |
| כְּנָֽעַן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 16:35 | 20 |
| כְּנַ֖עַן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 16:29 | 5 |
| כְּנַ֨עַן֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 48:7 | 3 |
| וּ/כְנַ֗עַן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 10:15 | 2 |
| וּ/כְנָֽעַן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 10:6 | 2 |
| כְנַ֔עַן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 9:22 | 2 |
| כְנַ֖עַן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 9:26 | 2 |
| כְנָֽעַן | Noun, Proper | Exodus 15:15 | 2 |
| כְנָ֑עַן | Noun, Proper | Psalms 106:38 | 1 |
| כְּנַ֗עַן | Noun, Proper | Hosea 12:7 | 1 |
| כְּנַ֡עַן | Noun, Proper | Leviticus 18:3 | 1 |
| כְּנַעַן֒ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 47:15 | 1 |
| כְּנָ֔עַן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 16:18 | 1 |
| כִּנְעָנֶ֖י/הָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 23:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3667, 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.
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Bible dictionary
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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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 91 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 91 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 9:18
- Exodus 6:4
- Leviticus 14:34
- Numbers 13:2
- Deuteronomy 32:49
- Joshua 5:12
- Judges 3:1
- 1 Chronicles 1:8
- Psalms 105:11
- Isaiah 19:18
- Ezekiel 16:29
- Hosea 12:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
