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# כְּנַעֲנִי

Biblical Hebrew

**trader** — used 2 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

trader [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b4_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּנַעֲנִי²: n.m. trader, merchant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b4_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. trader, merchant (cf. ii. כְּנַעַו); only sg. (but v. infr. pl. כְּנַעֲנִים Jb 40:30; pl. sf. כִּנְעָנֶיהָ (si vera l.) Is 23:8 (‖ סֹחֲרֶיהָ).):—וְלֹא יִהְיֶה כ׳ עוֹד בְּבֵית י׳ Zc 14:21 (Aq.); וַחֲגוֹר נָֽתְנָה לַכּ׳ Pr 31:24 (‖ סָדִין עָֽשְׂתָה וַתִּמְכֹּר). In Zc 11:7, 11 read perhaps (לִ)כְנַעֲנִיֵּי for (לָ)כֵן עֲנִיֵּי, 𝔊 Χαναναῖοι, Χαναανῖτιν, StaZAW, 1881, 26 (who comp. as to sense Ho 12:8), cf. Klo We Marti.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: merchants (2).

## In the verses

[Job 40:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.30/#tree)

יִכְר֣וּ עָ֭לָיו חַבָּרִ֑ים יֶ֝חֱצ֗וּהוּ בֵּ֣ין כְּֽנַעֲנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* will.they.barter? on it partners will they.divide.it? between merchants

*JPS 1917:* Will the bands of fishermen make a banquet of him? Will they part him among the merchants?

[Proverbs 31:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.24/#tree)

סָדִ֣ין עָ֭שְׂתָה וַתִּמְכֹּ֑ר וַ֝חֲג֗וֹר נָתְנָ֥ה לַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* linen.garment\[s\] she.makes and she.sold and a.belt she.supplies to the merchants

*JPS 1917:* She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b4_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b0_5bc_5e0_5b7_5e2_5b2_5e0_5b4_5d9/): 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).