ancient region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean; Promised Land (Biblical)
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Canaan Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Canaan Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Canaan Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Canaan (Northwest Semitic ; Phoenician: ; Biblical Hebrew: / ; Masoretic: / ; / Kana‘an) is a historical Semitic speaking region roughly corresponding to the Levant (modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan and Syria). Canaan was of geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite Empire and Assyrian Empires converged. Canaan is historically attested throughout the 4th millennium BC; the later Amarna Letters use , while sources of the Egyptian New Kingdom mention numerous military campaigns conducted in . In modern usage, the name is often associated with the Hebrew Bible, where the "Land of Canaan" extends from Lebanon southward to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan River Valley.
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Canaan is a 13-episode anime television series, conceptualized by Type-Moon co-founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi, based on the scenario that they created for the Nintendo Wii visual novel 428: Fusa Sareta Shibuya de, which is noted for being one of the few games to be have been awarded a perfect score by games publication Famitsu.
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Canaan Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
(1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18). (2.) The country which derived its name from the preceding. The name as first used by the Phoenicians denoted only the maritime plain on which Sidon was built. But in the time of Moses and Joshua it denoted the whole country to the west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea (Deut. 11:30). In Josh. 5:12 the LXX. read, "land of the Phoenicians," instead of "land of Canaan." The name signifies "the lowlands," as distinguished from the land of Gilead on the east of Jordan, which was a mountainous district. The extent and boundaries of Canaan are fully set forth in different parts of Scripture (Gen. 10:19; 17:8; Num. 13:29; 34:8). (See CANAANITES ¯T0000705, PALESTINE.)
(Ca'nan) (low, flat).
→ The fourth son of Ham, (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) the progenitor of the Phoenicians See: Zidon, Or Sidon, and of the various nations who before the Israelite conquest people the seacoast of Palestine, and generally the while of the country westward of the Jordan. (Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:13) (B.C. 2347.)
→ The name "Canaan" is sometimes employed for the country itself.
merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock. About
Canaan, Canaanites A Biblical term most often applied to the pre-Isrealite people of the land west of the Jordan, although not so ancient as the Amorites. Augustine mentions that the Phoenicians called their land Canaan. Seti I and Rameses III mention the Kan'na, probably referring to the lands of western Syria and Palestine. In Genesis 10, Canaan (kena`an) is named among the four sons of Ham, and some scholars have suggested that the name here refers to tribes in Arabia which later settled in Palestine; further that the Phoenicians were members of the second great Semitic migration, carrying the name Canaan into the lands which they settled. The chief deity of the Canaanites would seem to be Ashtart (Astarte) from the number of her images discovered, although images closely resembling Egyptian deities have likewise been exhumed. Nebo, the ancient Chaldean god of wisdom, was also reverenced by the Canaanites.
Canaan Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
(synonym) Palestine, Holy Land, Promised Land
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-holonym) Asia
(part-meronym) Judah, Juda
(class) chebab
