כְּנַעַנִי
Kᵉnaʻanîy · ken-ah-an-ee'
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
Lexicon
Derivation: patrial from H3667 (כְּנַעַן);
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
- a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan
- by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › the seed, life continuing › to see and know › the seed, life continuing › the hand that works
The open hand that covers of the seed, life continuing that works to see and know of the seed, life continuing of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כְּנַעַנִי 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
73 occurrences · 73 OT · 0 NT · 36 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the canaanites16 · 22%
- of the canaanites13 · 18%
- and the canaanites9 · 13%
- the canaanite5 · 7%
- but the canaanites5 · 7%
- and the canaanite3 · 4%
- against the canaanites3 · 4%
- among the canaanites1 · 1%
- canaanite1 · 1%
- of a canaanitish1 · 1%
- of a canaanitish woman1 · 1%
- you the canaanites1 · 1%
- for the canaanites1 · 1%
- and to the canaanite1 · 1%
- to the canaanite1 · 1%
- for us: and all the canaanites1 · 1%
- for us against the canaanites1 · 1%
- and all the canaanites1 · 1%
- and of the canaanites1 · 1%
- the canaanitess1 · 1%
- even of the canaanites1 · 1%
- him among the merchants1 · 1%
- unto the merchant1 · 1%
- of canaan1 · 1%
- shall possess that of the canaanites1 · 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.