# כְּנַעַן (kenaan)

Israeli respelling: ke-na-an. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3667. 91 Old Testament occurrences.

Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him

King James renderings: Canaan, merchant, traffick.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kenaan-h3667

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/18) — And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
- [Genesis 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/22) — And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- [Genesis 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/25) — And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
- [Genesis 9:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/26) — And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- [Genesis 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/27) — God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- [Genesis 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/6) — And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
- [Genesis 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/15) — And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
- [Genesis 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/31) — And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went fo…
- [Genesis 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/5) — And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotte…
- [Genesis 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/12) — Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
- [Genesis 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/16/3) — And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband…
- [Genesis 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/17/8) — And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting pos…
- [Genesis 23:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/2) — And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- [Genesis 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/23/19) — And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
- [Genesis 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/1) — And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- [Genesis 28:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/6) — When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he g…
- [Genesis 28:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/8) — And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
- [Genesis 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/18) — And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for…
- [Genesis 33:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/33/18) — And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the c…
- [Genesis 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/6) — So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
- [Genesis 36:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/2) — Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of…
- [Genesis 36:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/5) — And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
- [Genesis 36:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/36/6) — And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his…
- [Genesis 37:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/1) — And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- [Genesis 42:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/5) — And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- [Genesis 42:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/7) — And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, When…
- [Genesis 42:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/13) — And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our…
- [Genesis 42:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/29) — And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
- [Genesis 42:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/42/32) — We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
- [Genesis 44:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/44/8) — Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out…
- [Genesis 45:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/17) — And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
- [Genesis 45:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/45/25) — And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
- [Genesis 46:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/6) — And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with…
- [Genesis 46:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/12) — And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez…
- [Genesis 46:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/31) — And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my fathe…
- [Genesis 47:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/1) — Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come…
- [Genesis 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/4) — They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine…
- [Genesis 47:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/13) — And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reaso…
- [Genesis 47:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/14) — And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Jo…
- [Genesis 47:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/47/15) — And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why…
- [Genesis 48:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/48/3) — And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- [Genesis 48:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/48/7) — And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto…
- [Genesis 49:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/30) — In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron…
- [Genesis 50:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/5) — My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now the…
- [Genesis 50:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/13) — For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field…
- [Exodus 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/6/4) — And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strange…
- [Exodus 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/15) — Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall me…
- [Exodus 16:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/35) — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the bor…
- [Leviticus 14:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/14/34) — When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of yo…
- [Leviticus 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/3) — After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you,…
- [Leviticus 25:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/38) — I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
- [Numbers 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/2) — Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye…
- [Numbers 13:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/17) — And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
- [Numbers 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/19) — The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- [Numbers 32:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/30) — But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
- [Numbers 32:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/32/32) — We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
- [Numbers 33:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/40) — And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
- [Numbers 33:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/51) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
- [Numbers 34:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/2) — Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an…
- [Numbers 34:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/34/29) — These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
- [Numbers 35:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/10) — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
- [Numbers 35:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/14) — Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
- [Deuteronomy 32:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/49) — Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of…
- [Joshua 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/12) — And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but…
- [Joshua 14:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/14/1) — And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of N…
- [Joshua 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/21/2) — And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, wi…
- [Joshua 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/9) — And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of…
- [Joshua 22:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/10) — And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half…
- [Joshua 22:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/11) — And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an a…
- [Joshua 22:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/22/32) — And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the…
- [Joshua 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/3) — And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, an…
- [Judges 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/1) — Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- [Judges 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/2) — And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in H…
- [Judges 4:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/23) — So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
- [Judges 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/24) — And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Ca…
- [Judges 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/19) — The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.
- [Judges 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/12) — And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they bro…
- [1 Chronicles 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/1/8) — The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
- [1 Chronicles 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/1/13) — And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
- [1 Chronicles 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/18) — Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
- [Psalms 105:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/11) — Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
- [Psalms 106:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/106/38) — And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land w…
- [Psalms 135:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/135/11) — Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
- [Isaiah 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/18) — In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The c…
- [Isaiah 23:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/8) — Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
- [Isaiah 23:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/11) — He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the…
- [Ezekiel 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/29) — Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
- [Ezekiel 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/4) — He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
- [Hosea 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/7) — He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
- [Zephaniah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/11) — Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
- [Zephaniah 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/5) — Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Ph…