Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H3667
כְּנַעַן
Kenaanken-ah'-an
Canaan; merchant; Canaan
94 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kᵉnaʻan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3667is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3667
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
The King James renders it: Canaan, merchant, traffick.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Kenaan is rendered "Canaan; merchant; Canaan". It stands 94 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Forty-six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "Canaan".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:18כְנָֽעַן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Forty-six of the word's ninety-four uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: Canaan, and merchant, and Canaan.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| CanaanStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 9:18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth… |
| merchantStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| CanaanStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Canaan86
- and Canaan4
- merchant2
- merchants its1
- O Canaan1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| כְּנַעַנִי | Kenaani | Canaanite | Uses73 |
| כְּנָת | kenath | associate | Uses7 |
| כְּנֵמָא | kenema | thus | Uses5 |
| כְּנָת | kenath | associate | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 94, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כְּנָ֑עַן27
- כְּנַ֔עַן23
- כְּנָֽעַן׃17
- כְּנַ֖עַן5
- כְּנַ֙עַן֙3
- וּכְנַ֗עַן2
- וּכְנָֽעַן׃2
- כְנַ֔עַן2
- כְנַ֖עַן2
- כְנָֽעַן׃2
- כְּנָֽעַן׃ פ2
- כְנָ֑עַן1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)82HNpl
- proper noun (a name)5HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4HC/Npm
- noun · masculine or feminine plural2HNcbpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3fs
Genesis
forty-six uses
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
- כְנָֽעַן׃khenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
- כְנַ֔עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
- כְנַ֖עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”
- כְנַ֖עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- וּכְנָֽעַן׃ukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Canaan
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- וּכְנַ֗עַןukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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,
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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,”
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
And seeing that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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,
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.’
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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?
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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!”
- כְּנַעַן֒kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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).
- כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Exodus
three uses
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
- כְנָֽעַן׃khenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Leviticus
three uses
“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,
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֡עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Numbers
twelve uses
“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.”
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
“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:
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
- כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃ פkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Deuteronomy
one use
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Joshua
eight uses
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֖עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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,
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Judges
seven uses
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
- כְּנָֽעַן׃ פkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.
- כְנַ֔עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃ סkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- וּכְנָֽעַן׃ukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Canaan
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
- וּכְנַ֗עַןukhenaanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Canaan
‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’
- כְּנָ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Psalms
three uses
“I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.”
- כְּנָ֑עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.
- כְנָ֑עַןkhenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
- כְּנָֽעַן׃kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Isaiah
three uses
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
- כִּנְעָנֶ֖יהָkinaneihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: merchants its
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.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Ezekiel
two uses
So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!
- כְּנַ֖עַןkenaannoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: merchant
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaannoun · masculine or feminine pluraltagged: merchant
Hosea
one use
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- כְּנַ֗עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
Zephaniah
two uses
Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
- כְּנַ֔עַןkenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: Canaan
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.”
- כְּנַ֙עַן֙kenaanproper noun (a name)tagged: O Canaan
The letters
Gematria 190· 840 mispar gadol
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