kenaan · Canaan

What it means

kenaan (כְּנַעַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Canaan”.

Son of Ham and grandson of Noah; also the land where his descendants lived, which later became the land of Israel.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Canaan

  Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria

  The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.

  God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).

  Genesis 12:5Genesis 17:8Exodus 6:4Joshua 5:12

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Canaan ×92
• merchant ×1
• whose traders ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×46
• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×12
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×8
• Judges×7
• 1 Chronicles×3
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Zephaniah×2

• Genesis 9:18

  And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 9:22

  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.

• Genesis 9:25

  And he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

• Genesis 9:26

  And he said, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of Shem; and let Canaan be their slave.

• Genesis 9:27

  May Elohim make room for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be their slave.”

• Genesis 10:6

  And the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

• Genesis 10:15

  And Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 13:12

  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

• Genesis 16:3

  So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, at the end of ten years of Abram’s living in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.

• Genesis 17:8

  And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you reside as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession; and I will be their Elohim.”

• Genesis 23:2

  Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

• Genesis 23:19

  After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 28:1

  Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and commanded him and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

• Genesis 28:6

  Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

• Genesis 28:8

  Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing in the eyes of Isaac his father.

• Genesis 31:18

  He drove off all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 33:18

  Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped in front of the city.

• Genesis 35:6

  Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (that is, Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.

• Genesis 36:2

  Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

• Genesis 36:5

  and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 36:6

  Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the persons of his household, his livestock, all his animals, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from Jacob his brother.

• Genesis 37:1

  Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had resided as an alien, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:5

  The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 42:7

  Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he made himself a stranger to them and spoke with them harshly. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

• Genesis 42:13

  They said, “Your servants are twelve, we are brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and look, the youngest is with our father today, and the one is no more.”

• Genesis 42:29

  They came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

• Genesis 42:32

  We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; the one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.’

• Genesis 44:8

  Look, the silver that we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal from the house of your lord silver or gold?

• Genesis 45:17

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and set out, go to the land of Canaan,

• Genesis 45:25

  They went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

• Genesis 46:6

  They took their livestock and their goods that they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him;

• Genesis 46:12

  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

• Genesis 46:31

  Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

• Genesis 47:1

  Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan; and look, they are in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:4

  They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for the flocks that your servants have, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

• Genesis 47:13

  There was no bread in all the land, for the famine was very severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

• Genesis 47:14

  Joseph gathered up all the silver that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the grain that they were buying; and Joseph brought the silver into the house of Pharaoh.

• Genesis 47:15

  When the silver was gone from the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread! Why should we die before you? For our silver is gone.”

And 54 more times.