Kᵉnaʻan — H3667

H3667 · Hebrew — כנען

Pronunciation: ken-ah'-an

Definition

masculine proper noun

Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

  1. Canaan = "lowland"
  2. n pr m
  3. the 4th son of Ham and the progenitor of the Phoenicians and of the various nations who peopled the seacoast of Palestine
  4. n pr loc
  5. the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua
  6. n m
  7. merchant, trader

Usually translated as

Canaan, merchant, traffick

Origin

from H3665; humiliated

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Kᵉnaʻan occurs 93 times in 90 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (45), Exodus (3), Leviticus (3), Numbers (11), Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (8), Judges (6), 1 Chronicles (3), Psalms (3), Isaiah (2), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1), Zephaniah (2)

Strong's Lexicon — K