כְּנַעַן
Kᵉnaʻan · ken-ah'-an
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
Lexicon
Derivation: from H3665 (כָּנַע); humiliated;
Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him
- Kenaan, a son a Ham
- also, the country inhabited by him
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Canaan, merchant, traffick.
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the seed, life continuing › to see and know › the seed, life continuing
The open hand that covers of the seed, life continuing that works to see and know of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כְּנַעַן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
94 occurrences · 94 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of canaan81 · 86%
- and canaan6 · 6%
- be canaan1 · 1%
- whose traffickers1 · 1%
- against the merchant1 · 1%
- of traffick1 · 1%
- he is a merchant1 · 1%
- for all the merchant1 · 1%
- is against you; o canaan1 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.