כְּנַעַן

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H3667

Transliteration: Kᵉnaʻan

Pronunciation: ken-ah'-an

Definition: Canaan

Original: כּנען

Transliteration: kena‛an

Phonetic: ken-ah'-an

BDB Definition:

Canaan = "lowland"

the 4th son of Ham and the progenitor of the Phoenicians and of the various nations who peopled the seacoast of Palestine (noun proper masculine)
the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua (noun proper locative)
merchant, trader (noun masculine)

Origin: from H3665" class="dictionary-topic-link">H3665

TWOT entry: 1002,1002b