Word Study · Strong's H3667 · Hebrew
כְּנַעַן
Kenaan
ken-ah'-an
Strong's 1890 spelling: Kᵉnaʻan
“Kenaan, a son a Ham”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
Rendered in the KJV as
Canaan, merchant, traffick.
- 94occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 13 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 18inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 94 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 18
- כְּנָ֑עַן27
- כְּנַ֔עַן23
- כְּנָֽעַן׃17
- כְּנַ֖עַן5
- כְּנַ֙עַן֙3
- וּכְנַ֗עַן2
- וּכְנָֽעַן׃2
- כְנַ֔עַן2
- כְנַ֖עַן2
- כְנָֽעַן׃2
- כְּנָֽעַן׃ פ2
- כְנָ֑עַן1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 5
- Canaan86
- and Canaan4
- merchant[s]2
- merchants its1
- O Canaan1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)82
- proper noun (a name)5
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4
- noun · masculine or feminine plural2
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 82
- HNpm · 5
- HC/Npm · 4
- HNcbpa · 2
- HNcmpc/Sp3fs · 1
All 94, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis46 occurrences
- Genesis 9:18כְנָֽעַן׃khenaanproper noun (a name)The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 9:22כְנַ֔עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.here: Canaan
- Genesis 9:25כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 9:26כְנַ֖עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.here: Canaan
- Genesis 9:27כְנַ֖עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 10:6וּכְנָֽעַן׃ukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.here: and Canaan
- Genesis 10:15וּכְנַ֗עַןukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,here: and Canaan
- Genesis 11:31כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.here: Canaan
- Genesis 12:5כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,here: Canaan
- Genesis 12:5כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,here: Canaan
- Genesis 13:12כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.here: Canaan
- Genesis 16:3כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.here: Canaan
- Genesis 17:8כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 23:2כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.here: Canaan
- Genesis 23:19כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 28:1כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.here: Canaan
- Genesis 28:6כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”here: Canaan
- Genesis 28:8כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,here: Canaan
- Genesis 31:18כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 33:18כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.here: Canaan
- Genesis 35:6כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 36:2כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,here: Canaan
- Genesis 36:5כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 36:6כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.here: Canaan
- Genesis 37:1כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 42:5כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 42:7כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 42:13כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 42:29כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:here: Canaan
- Genesis 42:32כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’here: Canaan
- Genesis 44:8כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?here: Canaan
- Genesis 45:17כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 45:25כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Genesis 46:6כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.here: Canaan
- Genesis 46:12כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.here: Canaan
- Genesis 46:31כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.here: Canaan
- Genesis 47:1כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 47:4כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 47:13כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.here: Canaan
- Genesis 47:14כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.here: Canaan
- Genesis 47:15כְּנַעַן֒kenaanproper noun (a name)When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”here: Canaan
- Genesis 48:3כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed mehere: Canaan
- Genesis 48:7כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).here: Canaan
- Genesis 49:30כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.here: Canaan
- Genesis 50:5כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”here: Canaan
- Genesis 50:13כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.here: Canaan
Exodus3 occurrences
- Exodus 6:4כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.here: Canaan
- Exodus 15:15כְנָֽעַן׃khenaanproper noun (a name)Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,here: Canaan
- Exodus 16:35כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.here: Canaan
Leviticus3 occurrences
- Leviticus 14:34כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)“When you enter the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a contamination of mildew into a house in that land,here: Canaan
- Leviticus 18:3כְּנַ֡עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.here: Canaan
- Leviticus 25:38כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.here: Canaan
Numbers12 occurrences
- Numbers 13:2כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”here: Canaan
- Numbers 13:17כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.here: Canaan
- Numbers 26:19כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Numbers 32:30כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”here: Canaan
- Numbers 32:32כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”here: Canaan
- Numbers 33:40כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.here: Canaan
- Numbers 33:51כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,here: Canaan
- Numbers 34:2כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:here: Canaan
- Numbers 34:2כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:here: Canaan
- Numbers 34:29כְּנָֽעַן׃ פkenaanproper noun (a name)These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Numbers 35:10כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,here: Canaan
- Numbers 35:14כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.here: Canaan
Joshua8 occurrences
- Joshua 5:12כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
- Joshua 14:1כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.here: Canaan
- Joshua 21:2כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”here: Canaan
- Joshua 22:9כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.here: Canaan
- Joshua 22:10כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And when they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.here: Canaan
- Joshua 22:11כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”here: Canaan
- Joshua 22:32כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.here: Canaan
- Joshua 24:3כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,here: Canaan
Judges7 occurrences
- Judges 3:1כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,here: Canaan
- Judges 4:2כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.here: Canaan
- Judges 4:23כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.here: Canaan
- Judges 4:24כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.here: Canaan
- Judges 4:24כְּנָֽעַן׃ פkenaanproper noun (a name)And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.here: Canaan
- Judges 5:19כְנַ֔עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.here: Canaan
- Judges 21:12כְּנָֽעַן׃ סkenaanproper noun (a name)So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.here: Canaan
1 Chronicles3 occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 1:8וּכְנָֽעַן׃ukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.here: and Canaan
- 1 Chronicles 1:13וּכְנַ֗עַןukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,here: and Canaan
- 1 Chronicles 16:18כְּנָ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’here: Canaan
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 105:11כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”here: Canaan
- Psalms 106:38כְנָ֑עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.here: Canaan
- Psalms 135:11כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.here: Canaan
Isaiah3 occurrences
- Isaiah 19:18כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.here: Canaan
- Isaiah 23:8כִּנְעָנֶ֖יהָkinaneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singularWho planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?here: merchants its
- Isaiah 23:11כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.here: Canaan
Ezekiel2 occurrences
- Ezekiel 16:29כְּנַ֖עַןkenaannoun · masculine or feminine pluralSo you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!here: merchant[s]
- Ezekiel 17:4כְּנַ֔עַןkenaannoun · masculine or feminine pluralHe plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.here: merchant[s]
Hosea1 occurrence
Zephaniah2 occurrences
- Zephaniah 1:11כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.here: Canaan
- Zephaniah 2:5כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”here: O Canaan