# כְּנַעַנִי (kenaani)

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

Strong’s H3669. 71 Old Testament occurrences.

a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)

King James renderings: Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kenaani-h3669

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/18) — And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
- [Genesis 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/19) — And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, an…
- [Genesis 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/6) — And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
- [Genesis 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/7) — And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled t…
- [Genesis 15:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/21) — And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
- [Genesis 24:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/3) — And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the dau…
- [Genesis 24:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/37) — And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
- [Genesis 34:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/30) — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the…
- [Genesis 38:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/2) — And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
- [Genesis 46:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/46/10) — And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
- [Genesis 50:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/50/11) — And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the…
- [Exodus 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/8) — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, un…
- [Exodus 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/3/17) — And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, an…
- [Exodus 6:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/6/15) — And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the familie…
- [Exodus 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/5) — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and th…
- [Exodus 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/13/11) — And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it…
- [Exodus 23:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/23) — For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hiv…
- [Exodus 23:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/28) — And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
- [Exodus 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/33/2) — And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and…
- [Exodus 34:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/11) — Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the P…
- [Numbers 13:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/13/29) — The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaa…
- [Numbers 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/25) — (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
- [Numbers 14:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/43) — For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, there…
- [Numbers 14:45](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/45) — Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
- [Numbers 21:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/1) — And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Isr…
- [Numbers 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/3) — And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he ca…
- [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.
- [Deuteronomy 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/7) — Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, a…
- [Deuteronomy 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/1) — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hitt…
- [Deuteronomy 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/11/30) — Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign ove…
- [Deuteronomy 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/20/17) — But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebus…
- [Joshua 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/3/10) — And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaani…
- [Joshua 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/1) — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, wh…
- [Joshua 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/9) — For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: a…
- [Joshua 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/9/1) — And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the grea…
- [Joshua 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/11/3) — And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains…
- [Joshua 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/8) — In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites,…
- [Joshua 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/3) — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistin…
- [Joshua 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/13/4) — From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
- [Joshua 16:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/16/10) — And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tr…
- [Joshua 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/12) — Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- [Joshua 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/13) — Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly drive them…
- [Joshua 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/16) — And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots o…
- [Joshua 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/18) — But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive…
- [Joshua 24:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/24/11) — And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaan…
- [Judges 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/1) — Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaa…
- [Judges 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/3) — And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with…
- [Judges 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/4) — And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand me…
- [Judges 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/5) — And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
- [Judges 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/9) — And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the val…
- [Judges 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/10) — And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahi…
- [Judges 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/17) — And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the…
- [Judges 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/27) — Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her to…
- [Judges 1:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/28) — And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
- [Judges 1:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/29) — Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
- [Judges 1:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/30) — Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tr…
- [Judges 1:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/32) — But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.
- [Judges 1:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/33) — Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inh…
- [Judges 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/3) — Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount B…
- [Judges 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/3/5) — And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
- [2 Samuel 24:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/7) — And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah,…
- [1 Kings 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/9/16) — For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given…
- [1 Chronicles 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/2/3) — The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn…
- [Ezra 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/1) — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated…
- [Nehemiah 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/8) — And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,…
- [Nehemiah 9:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/24) — So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them…
- [Job 41:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/6) — Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
- [Proverbs 31:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/24) — She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
- [Ezekiel 16:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/3) — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mo…
- [Obadiah 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/20) — And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Je…
- [Zechariah 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/14/21) — Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them,…