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# canaanite

noun

«canaanite» in the English dictionary: in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Jewish tradition

The Canaanites were one of the peoples living in the land that God promised to Abraham's children. In the Prophets the name is also used for the land itself, and for one of the peoples Joshua fought, who lived east and west of the land.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis read the mention of the Canaanites as showing that the land was not yet Israel's. The Canaanites are the first on the lists of nations to be driven out. Ezekiel's words to Jerusalem, "thine origin is of the land of the Canaanite", are read as a harsh rebuke: the city had acted like the nations it replaced.

### Meaning

A person of the land of Canaan, the people who lived there before the Israelites. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#m1)

### Examples

- And the Canaanite was then in the land. (Torah GEN.12.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x1)
- And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. (Torah GEN.13.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x2)
- and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.' (Torah GEN.15.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x3)
- and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite. (Prophets EZK.16.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x4)
- to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. (Prophets JOS.11.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x5)
- in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: (Prophets JOS.12.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/#x6)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «canaanite» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/canaanite/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«canaanite» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/canaanite.html) on Mova free.