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# כְּנַעֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3668

**Chenaanah** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Chenaanah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3668/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּנַעֲנָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3668/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of proph. Zedekiah 1 K 22:11, 24 = 2 Ch 18:10, 23 (𝔊 Χανααν, Χαανα, Χανανα). a Benjamite 1 Ch 7:10 (𝔊 Χανααν, Χαναναν).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kenaanah (4); Kenaanah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.10/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י יְדִיעֲאֵ֖ל בִּלְהָ֑ן וּבְנֵ֣י בִלְהָ֗ן יְע֡וּשׁ וּ֠בִנְיָמִן וְאֵה֤וּד וּֽכְנַעֲנָה֙ וְזֵיתָ֔ן וְתַרְשִׁ֖ישׁ וַאֲחִישָֽׁחַר׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Jediael \[were\].Bilhan and the.sons of.Bilhan Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Kenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

[1 Kings 22:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.11/#tree)

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ל֛וֹ צִדְקִיָּ֥ה בֶֽן־כְּנַעֲנָ֖ה קַרְנֵ֣י בַרְזֶ֑ל וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בְּאֵ֛לֶּה תְּנַגַּ֥ח אֶת־אֲרָ֖ם עַד־כַּלֹּתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.had.made for himself Zedekiah the.son of.Kenaanah horns of.iron and he.said thus he.says Yahweh with these you.will.gore (et) Aram until destroy them

*JPS 1917:* And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: With these shalt thou gore the Arameans, until they be consumed.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3668.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3668/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).