Brown-Driver-Briggs
I.
כְּנַעֲנִי adjective and
name, of a people of I. כְּנַעַן; — usually masculine singular (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִי Genesis 38:2; Numbers 21:1 +; feminine singular הַכְּנַעֲנִית Genesis 46:10 = Exodus 6:15; 1 Chronicles 2:3 masculine plural (הַ)כְּנַעֲנִים Obadiah 20; Nehemiah 9:24; — 1. adjective ׳אִישׁ כ Genesis 38:2 (J). 2 with article as
substantive, a. of individual, ׳מֶלֶךְעֲֿרָדהַכּ Numbers 21:1 (J) and hence Numbers 33:40 (P or R); feminine הַכְּנַעֲנִיתּ Genesis 46:10 = Exodus 6:15 (P) בַּתשֿׁוּעַ הַכְּנַעֲנִית 1 Chronicles 2:3.
b. usually collective (with article) of pre-Israel in-habitants of כְּנַעַן (q. v.) Genesis 12:6; Genesis 24:3,37; Genesis 50:11 (all J), Numbers 21:3 (J), Joshua 13:3 (D), Judges 1:1,3,9,10,17, many of whom continued to live in the midst of Israel, Judges 1:27; Judges 1:28; Judges 1:29; Judges 1:29; Judges 1:30; Judges 1:32; Judges 1:33; Joshua 16:10 (twice in verse); Joshua 17:12,13,16,18 (all J E), 1 Kings 9:16; plural only Obadiah 20, and ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ הַכְּנַעֲנִים Nehemiah 9:24; ׳מִשְׁמְּחוֺת הַכּ Genesis 10:18, ׳גְּבוּל הַכּ Genesis 10:19 (both J), ׳אֶרֶץ הַכּ Exodus 13:11 (JE), Ezekiel 16:3; often of part of the inhabitants, וְכָל ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ ׳הַכּ Joshua 7:9 (JE), Deuteronomy 11:30; with other proper name, of a people, + הַמְּרִזִּי Genesis 13:7; Genesis 34:30 (both J), Judges 1:4,5, + הָאֱמֹרִי Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 13:4 (all D); + הַחִוִּי 2 Samuel 24:7; + עֲמָלֵקִ (יׅ Numbers 14:25,43,45; especially in the list of peoples dispossessed by Israel, Genesis 15:21; Exodus 3:8,17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 23:23,28; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 34:11; Numbers 13:29 (׳הַכּ dwelling by the sea and along Jordan [compare Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 13:4]; all these J E), Deuteronomy 7:1; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 3:10; Joshua 9:1; Joshua 11:3; Joshua 12:8; Joshua 24:11 (all J E D), Judges 3:3,5; hence Ezra 9:1; Nehemiah 9:8. compare DrDt. p. 11, 13 f., 97, 133.
II. כְּנַעֲנִי noun masculine trader, merchant (compare II. כְּנַעַן); only singular (but see below): — עוֺד ׳וְלֹא יִהְיֶה כ׳בְּבֵית י Zechariah 14:21 (probably); ׳וַחֲגוֺר נָָֽתְנָה לַכּ Proverbs 31:24 ("" סָדִין עָֽשְׂתָה וַתִּמְכֹּר). **plural suffix כִּנְעָנֶיהָ (si vera lectio) Isaiah 23:8 ("" סֹחֲרֶיהָ). In Zechariah 11:7,11 read perhaps (לִ)כְנַעֲנִיֵּי for (לָ)כֵן עֲנִיֵּי, ᵐ5 Ξαναναῖοι, Ξαναανῖτιν, StaZAW, 1881. 26 (who compare as to sense Hosea 12:8), compare Klo We Marti.
