Kᵉnaʻanîy — H3669

Definition

adjective

a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)

1. Canaanite = see Cana "zealous"
2. adj
3. descendant of inhabitant of Canaan
4. n
5. descendant or inhabitant of Canaan
6. a merchant, trader

Usually translated as

Canaanite, merchant, trafficker

Origin

patrial from H3667

• Derived from Kᵉnaʻan (H3667)

Occurrences

Kᵉnaʻanîy occurs 74 times in 72 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (11), Exodus (9), Numbers (7), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (14), Judges (15), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (2), Job (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Obadiah (1), Zechariah (1)

• Genesis 10:18 — And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי) spread abroad.
• Genesis 10:19 — And the border of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙) was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
• Genesis 12:6 — And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) was then in the land.
• Genesis 13:7 — And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙) and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
• Genesis 15:21 — And the Amorites, and the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
• Genesis 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), among whom I dwell:
• Genesis 24:37 — And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), in whose land I dwell:
• Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites (בַּֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
• Genesis 38:2 — And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite (כְּנַעֲנִ֖י), whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
• Genesis 46:10 — And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽית).
• Genesis 50:11 — And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֜י), saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
• Exodus 3:17 — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Exodus 6:15 — And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑ית): these are the families of Simeon.
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites (הַֽ֠כְּנַעֲנִי), and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
• Exodus 13:11 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
• Exodus 23:23 — For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
• Exodus 23:28 — And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֛י), and the Hittite, from before thee.
• Exodus 33:2 — And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
• Numbers 13:29 — The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙) dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
• Numbers 14:25 — (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
• Numbers 14:43 — For the Amalekites and the Canaanites (וְהַכְּנַעֲנִ֥י) are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
• Numbers 14:45 — Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י) which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
• Numbers 21:1 — And when king Arad the Canaanite (הַכְּנַעֲנִ֤י), which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
• Numbers 21:3 — And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י); and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
• Numbers 33:40 — And king Arad the Canaanite (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
• Deuteronomy 1:7 — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites (וְהַכְּנַעֲנִ֣י), and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
• Deuteronomy 11:30 — Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י), which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
• Deuteronomy 20:17 — But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites (הַכְּנַעֲנִ֣י), and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites (הַכְּנַעֲנִ֨י), and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
• Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
• Joshua 7:9 — For the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י) and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
• Joshua 11:3 — And to the Canaanite (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙) on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
• Joshua 12:8 — In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙), the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
• Joshua 13:3 — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite (לַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י): five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:
• Joshua 13:4 — From the south, all the land of the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י), and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
• Joshua 16:10 — And they drave not out the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
• Joshua 16:10 — And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֜י) dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
• Joshua 17:12 — Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י) would dwell in that land.
• Joshua 17:13 — Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
• Joshua 17:16 — And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִי֙) that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
• Joshua 17:18 — But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י), though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
• Joshua 24:11 — And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites (וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י), and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
• Judges 1:1 — Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֛י) first, to fight against them?
• Judges 1:3 — And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites (בַּֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י); and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.
• Judges 1:4 — And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites (הַכְּנַעֲנִ֥י) and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
• Judges 1:5 — And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites (הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י) and the Perizzites.