Strong's Hebrew · H3667

H3667 Kᵉnaʻan

כְּנַעַן

ken-ah'-an

Canaan

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Kᵉnaʻan appears 94 times in Scripture, including Genesis 9:18 and Genesis 9:22. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

In the King James Version

Canaan, merchant, traffick.

Derivation

from H3665 (כָּנַע); humiliated;

Appears 94 times in Scripture

Genesis 11:31

“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.”

Genesis 9:25

“he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.””

Genesis 9:27

“May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.””

Genesis 9:18

“The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.”

Genesis 12:5

“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,”

Genesis 9:22

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

Genesis 9:26

“He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.”

Genesis 10:6

“The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.”

Genesis 10:15

“And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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