כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani

Hebrew word for “Canaanite” · Strong’s H3669 · used 73 times in 71 verses

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Meaning

Group of ke.na.an (כְּנַ֫עַן "Canaan" H3667A); § Canaanite, of Cana "zealous"; adj; descendant or inhabitant of Canaan

Senses in the lexicon

• Canaanite (68)
• merchant (3)
• Canaanitess (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for kenaani in context, with how often each is used:

• canaanites 60
• canaanite 4
• canaanite woman 3
• against the canaanites 2
• merchants 2
• among the canaanites 1
• will be canaanites 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 1 (13), Joshua 17 (4), Numbers 14 (3), Genesis 10 (2), Genesis 24 (2), Exodus 3 (2), Exodus 13 (2), Exodus 23 (2), Numbers 21 (2), Joshua 13 (2)

Forms

• הכנעני 47
• והכנעני 12
• בכנעני 3
• לכנעני 3
• הכנענית 3
• כנעני 2
• כנענים 2
• הכנענים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kenaani more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פְּרִזִּי perizzi “Perizzite” 19
• אֱמֹרִי emori “Amorite” 22
• חִתִּי chitti “Hittite” 19
• חִוִּי chivvi “Hivite” 17
• יְבוּסִי yevusi “Jebusite” 18
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 27
• יָרַשׁ yarash “to possess” 14
• נֶגֶב negev “south” 8
• גִּרְגָּשִׁי girgashi “Girgashite” 5
• הַר har “mountain” 10
• קֶרֶב qerev “entrails” 8
• מַס mas “taskworker” 5

Key verses

The verses using kenaani that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the…
• Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I…
• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Exodus 13:5 — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which…
• Exodus 34:11 — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the…
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the…
• Joshua 3:10 — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the…
• Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea,…
• Joshua 9:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against…
• Judges 3:3 — Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the…
• Ezra 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the…
• Nehemiah 9:8 — And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.