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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 BoxNum 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, “Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 - Er and Onan were sons of Judah, but they died in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross over before the LORD into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40

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 BoxNum 33:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:51 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29 - These are the men the LORD commanded to assign the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.
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