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Lexicon :: Strong's H3669 - kᵊnaʿănî

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כְּנַעֲנִי
Transliteration
kᵊnaʿănî
Pronunciation
ken-ah-an-ee'
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Part of Speech
adjective, noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1002a,1002b

Strong’s Definitions

כְּנַעַנִי Kᵉnaʻanîy, ken-ah-an-ee'; patrial from H3667; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans):—Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x

The KJV translates Strong's H3669 in the following manner: Canaanite (67x), merchant (2x), Canaan (1x), Canaanitess (1x), Canaanitish woman (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x
The KJV translates Strong's H3669 in the following manner: Canaanite (67x), merchant (2x), Canaan (1x), Canaanitess (1x), Canaanitish woman (2x).

  1. Canaanite = see Cana "zealous"

    adjective

    1. descendant of inhabitant of Canaan

      noun

    2. descendant or inhabitant of Canaan

    3. a merchant, trader

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּנַעַנִי Kᵉnaʻanîy, ken-ah-an-ee'; patrial from H3667; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans):—Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.
STRONGS H3669: Abbreviations
† I. כְּנַעֲנִי adjective and name, of a people of I. כְּנַעַן; — usually masculine singular (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִי Genesis 38:2; Numbers 21:1 +; feminine singular הַכְּנַעֲנִית Genesis 46:10 = Exodus 6:15; 1 Chronicles 2:3 masculine plural (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִים Obadiah 20; Nehemiah 9:24; —
1. adjective אִישׁ כ׳ Genesis 38:2 (J).
2. with article as substantive,
a. of individual, מֶלֶךְעֲֿרָדהַכּ׳ Numbers 21:1 (J) and hence Numbers 33:40 (P or R); feminine הַכְּנַעֲנִיתּ Genesis 46:10 = Exodus 6:15 (P) בַּתשֿׁוּעַ הַכְּנַעֲנִית 1 Chronicles 2:3.
b. usually collective (with article) of pre-Israel inhabitants of כְּנַעַן (which see) Genesis 12:6; Genesis 24:3, 37; Genesis 50:11 (all J), Numbers 21:3 (J), Joshua 13:3 (D), Judges 1:1, 3, 9, 10, 17, many of whom continued to live in the midst of Israel, Judges 1:27; Judges 1:28; Judges 1:29; Judges 1:29; Judges 1:30; Judges 1:32; Judges 1:33; Joshua 16:10 (twice in verse); Joshua 17:12, 13, 16, 18 (all J E), 1 Kings 9:16; plural only Obadiah 20, and ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִים Nehemiah 9:24; כ׳הַכּ׳ מִשְׁפְּחוֹת Genesis 10:18, גְּבוּל הַכּ׳ Genesis 10:19 (both J), אֶרֶץ הַכּ׳ Exodus 13:11 (JE), Ezekiel 16:3; often of part of the inhabitants, וְכָל ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ הַכּ׳ Joshua 7:9 (JE), Deuteronomy 11:30; with other proper name, of a people, + הַפְּרִוִּי Genesis 13:7; Genesis 34:30 (both J), Judges 1:4, 5, + הָאֱמֹרִי Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 13:4 (all D); + הַחִוִּי 2 Samuel 24:7; + עֲמָלֵקִ(י) Numbers 14:25, 43, 45; especially in the list of peoples dispossessed by Israel, Genesis 15:21; Exodus 3:8, 17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 23:23, 28; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Numbers 13:29 (הַכּ׳ dwelling by the sea and along Jordan [compare Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 13:4]; all these J E), Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 3:10; Joshua 9:1; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8; Joshua 24:11 (all J E D), Judges 3:3, 5; hence Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8. compare DrDt. p. 11, 13 f., 97, 133.

II. כְּנַעֲנִי noun masculine trader, merchant (compare II. כְּנַעַן); only singular (but see below): — עוֺד וְלֹא יִהְיֶה כ׳ בְּבֵית י׳ Zechariah 14:21 (probably); לַכּ׳ נָֽתְנָה וַחֲגוֺר Proverbs 31:24 (|| סָדִין עָֽשְׂתָה וַתִּמְכֹּר). **plural suffix כִּנְעָנֶיהָ (si vera lectio) Isaiah 23:8 (|| סֹחֲרֶיהָ). In Zechariah 11:7, 11 read perhaps (לִ)כְנַעֲנִיֵּי for (לָ)כֵן עֲנִיֵּי, Greek Version of the LXX Χαναναῖοι, Χαναανῖτιν, StaZAW, 1881. 26 (who compare as to sense Hosea 12:8), compare Klo We Marti.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:18; 10:19; 12:6; 13:7; 15:21; 24:3; 24:37; 34:30; 38:2; 38:2; 46:10; 46:10; 50:11

Exodus

3:8; 3:17; 6:15; 6:15; 13:5; 13:11; 23:23; 23:28; 33:2; 34:11

Numbers

13:29; 14:25; 14:43; 14:45; 21:1; 21:1; 21:3; 33:40

Deuteronomy

1:7; 1:7; 7:1; 11:30; 11:30; 20:17

Joshua

3:10; 5:1; 5:1; 7:9; 9:1; 11:3; 11:3; 12:8; 13:3; 13:4; 13:4; 16:10; 17:12; 17:13; 17:16; 17:18; 24:11

Judges

1:1; 1:3; 1:4; 1:5; 1:9; 1:10; 1:17; 1:27; 1:28; 1:29; 1:29; 1:30; 1:32; 1:33; 3:3; 3:5

2 Samuel

24:7

1 Kings

9:16

1 Chronicles

2:3; 2:3

Ezra

9:1

Nehemiah

9:8; 9:24; 9:24

Proverbs

31:24

Isaiah

23:8

Ezekiel

16:3

Hosea

12:8

Obadiah

1:20; 1:20

Zechariah

11:7; 11:11; 14:21

H3669

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Strong's Number H3669 matches the Hebrew כְּנַעֲנִי (kᵊnaʿănî),
which occurs 73 times in 71 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 10:18–Jdg 1:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:18 - Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans scattered

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:19 - and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2 - There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:10 - The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:11 - When the Canaanites who lived there saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “The Egyptians are holding a solemn ceremony of mourning.” That is why that place near the Jordan is called Abel Mizraim.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:8 - So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:17 - And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:15 - The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:23 - My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:28 - I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:2 - I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:11 - Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Since the Amalekites and the Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:43 - for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the LORD, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:45 - Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:3 - The LORD listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:30 - As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, westward, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:17 - Completely destroy[fn] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:10 - This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they[fn] had crossed over, their hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:9 - The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:3 - to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:3 - from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:4 - on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:10 - They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:12 - Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:13 - However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:16 - The people of Joseph replied, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - “ ‘Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, “Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.” So the Simeonites went with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - When Judah attacked, the LORD gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5 - It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - After that, Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev and the western foothills.

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