--- title: כְּנַעֲנִי — Kenaanite · The Tanakh dictionary description: כְּנַעֲנִי (3669), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 71 times: Kenaanite. BDB 1906: adj. nom. gent. adj. subst. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3669.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [כ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1499-2.md)‎ / כְּנַעֲנִי‎ # כְּנַעֲנִי «כְּנַעֲנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kenaanite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 71 times · **Key:** 3669 · **BDB:** כְּנַעֲנִי ### Glosses Canaanite\[s\] (45); the.Canaanite\[s\] (17); Canaanite (2) ### Meaning (OSHB) Kenaanite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3669/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) adj. nom. gent. adj. subst. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3669/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** adj. et nom. gent. of 1. כְּנַעַן;—usually ms. (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִי Gn 38:2 Nu 21:1 +; fs. הַכְּנַעֲנִית Gn 46:10 = Ex 6:15 1 Ch 2:3; mpl.; (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִים Ob 20 Ne 9:24;— adj. אִישׁ כ׳ Gn 38:2 (J). c. art. as subst., of individual, הַכּ׳ מֶלֶךְ־עֲרָד Nu 21:1 (J) and hence 33:40 (P or R); f. הַכְּנַעֲנִית Gn 46:10 = Ex 6:15 (P) בַּת־שׁוּעַ הַכְּנַעֲנִית 1 Ch 2:3. usually coll. (c. art.) of pre-Isr. inhabitants of כְּנַעַן (q.v.) Gn 12:6; 24:3, 37; 50:11 (all J), Nu 21:3 (J), Jos 13:3 (D), Ju 1:1, 3, 9, 10, 17, many of whom continued to live in the midst of Isr., v 27, 28, 29(×2), 30, 32, 33 Jos 16:10(×2), 17:12, 13, 16, 18 (all JE), 1 K 9:16; pl. only Ob 20, and יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִים Ne 9:24; מִשְׁפְּחוֹת הַכּ׳ Gn 10:18, גְּבוּל הַכּ׳ v 19 (both J), אֶרֶץ הַכּ׳ Ex 13:11 (JE), Ez 16:3; often of part of the inhabit., הַכּ׳ וְכָל יֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ Jos 7:9 (JE), Dt 11:30; with other n.pr.gent., + הַפְּרִזִּי Gn 13:7; 34:30 (both J), Ju 1:4, 5, + הָאֱמֹרִי Dt 1:7 Jos 5:1; 13:4 (all D); + הַחִוִּי 2 S 24:7; + עֲמָלֵקִ(י) Nu 14:25, 43, 45; especially in the list of peoples dispossessed by Isr., Gn 15:21 Ex 3:8, 17; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11 Nu 13:29 (הַכּ׳ dwelling by the sea and along Jordan \[cf. Dt 1:7; 11:30 Jos 5:1; 11:3; 13:4\]; all these JE), Dt 7:1; 20:17 Jos 3:10; 9:1; 11:3; 12:8; 24:11 (all JED), Ju 3:3, 5; hence Ezr 9:1 Ne 9:8. Cf. Dr Dt. p. 11, 13 f., 97, 133. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 68 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «כְּנַעֲנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3669/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Judges 1:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.32/) וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ הָאָ֣שֵׁרִ֔י בְּקֶ֥רֶב הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖י יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ כִּ֖י לֹ֥א הוֹרִישֽׁוֹ׃ס *Word for word:* and it.dwelt the Asherite\[s\] in the.midst of the.Canaanite\[s\] the.inhabitants of the.land (dm) not it dispossessed.it *JPS 1917:* but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out. [Genesis 15:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.21/) וְאֶת־הָֽאֱמֹרִי֙ וְאֶת־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֔י וְאֶת־הַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֖י וְאֶת־הַיְבוּסִֽי׃ס *Word for word:* and (et) the Amorite\[s\] and (et) the Canaanite\[s\] and (et) the Girgashite\[s\] and (et) the Jebusite\[s\] *JPS 1917:* and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.' - ← previous: [כְּנַעֲנָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3668.md) - next →: [כְּנַעֲנִי](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b4_5d9.md) - ↑ back to [כ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1499-2.md)