Meaning
6 sensesA historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine/Israel.
Kanaan
Ханаа́нXanaán
ХанаанXanaan
A grandson of Noah.
ХанаанXanaan
(rare)A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
The name of multiple places in North America named after the historic region, including:
A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Canaan Township.
Examples
12 sentencesArcheologically speaking, there was never any Hebrew conquest of Canaan.
Slavic lands were referred to as Canaan in Medieval Hebrew.
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Canaan, wherein his father sojourned.
The word Peleshet originally referred to the coastal region of Southern Canaan.
The notion of a Hebrew conquest of Canaan from Egypt is archeologically inaccurate.
Translations
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Origin
Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from EcclesiasTaken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Biblical Hebrew כְּנַעַן (kanáʕan). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.
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