Strong H3667H3667Aכְּנַ֫עַן

Canaan

Transliteration: kena‛an
Pronunciation: ken-ah'-an
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

Canaan was the ancient region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, named after Noah's grandson and later promised to Abraham's descendants.

Meaning of the name

Canaan = "lowland"

General definition

From H3665; humiliated;
{Kenaan} a son of Ham; also the country inhabited by him: - {Canaan} {merchant} traffick.

In the biblical story

Canaan

Ancient region; descendants of Ham; promised to Abraham's descendants

Canaan was the ancient region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, named after Noah's grandson and later promised to Abraham's descendants.

In the Bible

Strong H3667A appears in 77 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

canaan76
merchant1

First verses

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Genesis 16:3
And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 23:19
And 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
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 28:6
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
Genesis 28:8
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Genesis 31:18
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan–aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 33:18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan–aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Genesis 35:6
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.
Genesis 36:2
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Genesis 36:5
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:6
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:7
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
Genesis 42:13
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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