Smith's Bible Dictionary
The Canaanitesa word used in two senses:
- A tribe which inhabited a particular locality of the land west of the Jordan before the conquest; and
- The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
- In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats of the Canaanite tribe are given as on the seashore and in the Jordan valley; comp. (Joshua 11:3)
- Applied as a general name to the non-Israelite inhabitants of the land, as we have already seen was the case with "Canaan." Instances of this are, (Genesis 12:6; Numbers 21:3) The Canaanites were descendants of Canaan. Their language was very similar to the Hebrew. The Canaanites were probably given to commerce; and thus the name became probably in later times an occasional synonym for a merchant.
Strong's Hebrew
4068. Madon -- a royal city of the Canaanites... << 4067, 4068. Madon. 4069 >>. a royal city of the
Canaanites. Transliteration:
Madon Phonetic Spelling: (maw-dohn') Short Definition: Madon.
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... << 3669, 3669a. Kenaani. 3669b >>. inhab. of Canaan. Transliteration: Kenaani Short
Definition: Canaanites. Word Origin from Kenaan Definition inhab. ...
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6786. Tsemari -- a Canaanite people
... Zemarite. Patrial from an unused name of a place in Palestine; a Tsemarite or branch
of the Canaanites -- Zemarite. << 6785, 6786. Tsemari. 6787 >>. ...
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3669. Kna'aniy -- inhab. of Canaan
... Patrial from Kna'an; a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar
(the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted ...
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