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title: כְּנַעַן — Canaan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּנַעַן (3667), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 89 times: Canaan. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. terr. Canaan n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּנַעַן

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«כְּנַעַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Canaan** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 89 times · **Key:** 3667 · **BDB:** כְּנַ֫עַן

### Glosses

of.Canaan (79); Canaan (9); O.Canaan (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Canaan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3667/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. terr. Canaan n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3667/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** 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);— 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). 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). the coast, especially Phoenicia Is 23:11; cf. כ׳ אֶרֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּים Zp 2:5.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 53 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּנַעַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3667/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.8/)

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בְּנֵ֖י חָ֑ם כּ֥וּשׁ וּמִצְרַ֖יִם פּ֥וּט וּכְנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ham \[were\].Cush and Mizraim Put and Canaan

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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[Genesis 9:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.9.25/)

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וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אָר֣וּר כְּנָ֑עַן עֶ֥בֶד עֲבָדִ֖ים יִֽהְיֶ֥ה לְאֶחָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.said \[be\].cursed Canaan a.slave of.slaves he.will.be of brothers his

*JPS 1917:* And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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