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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 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 boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:
“May Canaan be cursed!
May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - Then Noah said,
“May the LORD, the God of Shem, be blessed,
and may Canaan be his servant!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:27 - May God expand the territory of Japheth!
May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem,[fn]
and may Canaan be his servant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:6 - The descendants of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:15 - Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Then Abraham buried his wife, Sarah, there in Canaan, in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre (also called Hebron).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:1 - So Isaac called for Jacob, blessed him, and said, “You must not marry any of these Canaanite women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:8 - It was now very clear to Esau that his father did not like the local Canaanite women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Paddan-aram and set out for the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - Later, having traveled all the way from Paddan-aram, Jacob arrived safely at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan. There he set up camp outside the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:6 - Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel) in Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:2 - Esau married two young women from Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:5 - Oholibamah gave birth to sons named Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:6 - Esau took his wives, his children, and his entire household, along with his livestock and cattle—all the wealth he had acquired in the land of Canaan—and moved away from his brother, Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:1 - So Jacob settled again in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived as a foreigner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So Jacob’s[fn] sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - Joseph recognized his brothers instantly, but he pretended to be a stranger and spoke harshly to them. “Where are you from?” he demanded.
“From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We have come to buy food.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - “Sir,” they said, “there are actually twelve of us. We, your servants, are all brothers, sons of a man living in the land of Canaan. Our youngest brother is back there with our father right now, and one of our brothers is no longer with us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One brother is no longer with us, and the youngest is at home with our father in the land of Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:8 - Didn’t we return the money we found in our sacks? We brought it back all the way from the land of Canaan. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘This is what you must do: Load your pack animals, and hurry back to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:25 - And they left Egypt and returned to their father, Jacob, in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:6 - They also took all their livestock and all the personal belongings they had acquired in the land of Canaan. So Jacob and his entire family went to Egypt—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s entire family, “I will go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘My brothers and my father’s entire family have come to me from the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:1 - Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, “My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - We have come to live here in Egypt for a while, for there is no pasture for our flocks in Canaan. The famine is very severe there. So please, we request permission to live in the region of Goshen.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:13 - Meanwhile, the famine became so severe that all the food was used up, and people were starving throughout the lands of Egypt and Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:14 - By selling grain to the people, Joseph eventually collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and he put the money in Pharaoh’s treasury.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:15 - When the people of Egypt and Canaan ran out of money, all the Egyptians came to Joseph. “Our money is gone!” they cried. “But please give us food, or we will die before your very eyes!”

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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 blessed me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - And I reaffirmed my covenant with them. Under its terms, I promised to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:15 - The leaders of Edom are terrified;
the nobles of Moab tremble.
All who live in Canaan melt away;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:35 - So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:34 - “When you arrive in Canaan, the land I am giving you as your own possession, I may contaminate some of the houses in your land with mildew.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:3 - So do not act like the people in Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am taking you. You must not imitate their way of life.

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