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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)
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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 12 times in 11 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 - The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:51 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29 - These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
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