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Canaanite
Canaanite Ca"naan*ite, n.
1. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of
Noah.
2. A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a
member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the
time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Canaanite
Canaanite Ca"naan*ite, n. [From an Aramaic word signifying
``zeal.']
A zealot. ``Simon the Canaanite.' --Matt. x. 4.
Note: This was the ``Simon called Zelotes' (--Luke vi. 15),
i.e., Simon the zealot. --Kitto.
Meaning of Canaanite from wikipedia
- Canaanite may refer to: Canaan and Canaanite people, a historical/Biblical region and people in the area of the present-day Levant Canaanite languages...
- The Canaanite languages, or Canaanite dialects, are one of the three subgroups of the Northwest Semitic languages, the others being Aramaic and Amorite...
- the area of Phoenicia, Philistia, Israel, and other nations. The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous po****tions—both...
- Canaanite religion refers to the group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze...
- Proto-Sinaitic, also referred to as Sinaitic, Proto-Canaanite, Old Canaanite, or Canaanite, is a term for both a Middle Bronze Age (Middle Kingdom) script...
- Bronze: his name may have begun as an epithet of El, head of the Bronze Age Canaanite pantheon, but the earliest plausible mentions of Yahweh are in Egyptian...
- Proto-Canaanite is the name given to (a) the Proto-Sinaitic script when found in Canaan. (b) a hypothetical ancestor of the Phoenician script before some...
- Specific deities known as ʾEl or ʾIl include the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion and the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in the Early Dynastic...
- of the Canaanite po****tion, consolidated their hold with the emergence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Some consider that these Canaanite sedentary...
- Semitic languages" into Northwest (Canaanite and Aramaic) and Southwest (Arabic and Abyssinian). Brockelmann's Canaanite sub-group includes Ugaritic, Phoenician...
