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Lexicon :: Strong's H3667 - kᵊnaʿan

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כְּנַעַן
Transliteration
kᵊnaʿan
Pronunciation
ken-ah'-an
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1002,1002b

Strong’s Definitions

כְּנַעַן Kᵉnaʻan, ken-ah'-an; from H3665; humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him:—Canaan, merchant, traffick.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x

The KJV translates Strong's H3667 in the following manner: Canaan (89x), merchant (3x), traffick (1x), traffickers (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 94x
The KJV translates Strong's H3667 in the following manner: Canaan (89x), merchant (3x), traffick (1x), traffickers (1x).

  1. Canaan = "lowland"

    proper masculine noun

    1. the 4th son of Ham and the progenitor of the Phoenicians and of the various nations who peopled the seacoast of Palestine

      proper locative noun

    2. the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua

      masculine noun

    3. merchant, trader

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּנַעַן Kᵉnaʻan, ken-ah'-an; from H3665; humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him:—Canaan, merchant, traffick.
STRONGS H3667: Abbreviations
I. כְּנַ֫עַן 90 proper name, masculine and of a territory Canaan (Greek Version of the LXX Χανααν, Phoenician כנען = Phoenicia; Χνα = כנע, Hecataeus, see MüllerFr. Hist. Gr. i,17 and others; Egyptian Ka-n-‘-na WMMAs.u. Europa, 205 ff.; Tel Amarna Kinaḫna, Kinaḫḫi, etc., BezoldBM Tablets, 150 WklTA 39; etymology dubious GFMPAOS Oct. 1890. lxvii ff.; see also GASmGeogr. 4 f. BuhlGeogr. § 42); —
†1. as proper name, masculine, son of Ham Genesis 9:18, 22, 25, 27; Genesis 10:15 (as ancestor of Canaanites and Phoenicians; all J); Genesis 10:6 (P); 1 Chronicles 1:8, 13 (from Genesis 10:6, 15).
2.
a. land, west of Jordan, into which Hebrews came, and where they settled, subduing the inhabitants; מַלְכֵי כְּנַעַן Judges 5:19, מלך כ׳ Judges 4:2, 23, 24 (twice in verse); hence מַמְלְכוֺת כ׳ Psalm 135:11; ישְׁבֵי כ׳ Exodus 15:15 (song in E); compare מִלְחֲמוֺת כ׳ Judges 3:1; עֲצַבֵּי כ׳ Psalm 106:38 idols of Canaan, i.e. of the former inhabitants; especially אֶרֶץ (ֿ) כ׳, אַרְצָה כ׳ Genesis 44:8; Genesis 46:31; Genesis 47:1, 4, 13, 14, 15; Genesis 50:5, 13 (all J), Genesis 35:6; Genesis 42:5, 7, 13, 29, 32; Genesis 45:17, 25; Joshua 24:3 (all E), Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:5 (twice in verse); Genesis 13:12 (opposed to עָרֵי הַכִּכָּר Genesis 13:12b), Genesis 16:3; Genesis 17:8 (all P) + 40 times P, Judges 21:12; 1 Chronicles 16:18 = Psalm 105:11; also הָאָרֶץ כ׳ Numbers 34:2 (P); בְּנוֺת כ׳ Genesis 28:1 daughters of Canaan = women of the land, so Genesis 28:6; Genesis 28:8; Genesis 36:2 (all P); כנען is personified Hosea 12:8 = apostate Israel; שְׂפַת כ׳ Isaiah 19:18 = the Hebrew language (without evil implication).
b. the coast, especially Phoenicia Isaiah 23:11; compare פְּלִשְׁתִּים אֶרֶץ כ׳ Zephaniah 2:5.

† II. כְּנָ֫עַן noun [masculine] merchant(s) (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were traders); — כָּלעַֿם כְּנַעַן Zephaniah 1:11; אֶרֶץ כ׳ Ezekiel 16:29 (omitted by Greek Version of the LXX B and others Co), Ezekiel 17:4 a land of merchants; compare כנעני near the end.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

9:18; 9:22; 9:25; 9:27; 10:6; 10:6; 10:15; 10:15; 11:31; 12:5; 13:12; 13:12; 16:3; 17:8; 28:1; 28:6; 28:8; 35:6; 36:2; 42:5; 42:7; 42:13; 42:29; 42:32; 44:8; 45:17; 45:25; 46:31; 47:1; 47:4; 47:13; 47:14; 47:15; 50:5; 50:13

Exodus

15:15

Numbers

34:2

Joshua

24:3

Judges

3:1; 4:2; 4:23; 4:24; 5:19; 21:12

1 Chronicles

1:8; 1:13; 16:18

Psalms

105:11; 106:38; 135:11

Isaiah

19:18; 23:11

Ezekiel

16:29; 17:4

Hosea

12:8

Zephaniah

1:11; 2:5

H3667

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Strong's Number H3667 matches the Hebrew כְּנַעַן (kᵊnaʿan),
which occurs 94 times in 91 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 9:18–Lev 18:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:18 - The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:22 - Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - He also said, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:27 - May God extend Japheth’s[fn] territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:15 - Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn,[fn] and of the Hittites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,[fn] to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,[fn] he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:5 - and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - As soon as Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where do you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied, “to buy food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - But they replied, “Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 - When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them. They said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found inside the mouths of our sacks. So why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - So they went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Zerah (but Er and Onan had died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and speak to Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were living in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:3 - Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty[fn] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there he blessed me

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - As I was returning from Paddan,[fn] to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear an oath and said, “I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:15 - The chiefs of Edom will be terrified, the leaders of Moab will be seized with trembling, the people[fn] of Canaan will melt away;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - “When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a spreading mold in a house in that land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.

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