Definitions for Canaan

Canaan Ca·naan

Spelling: [key-nuh n]
IPA: /ˈkeɪ nən/

Canaan is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in Canaan (aaacnn).

Definitions for Canaan

noun

  1. the ancient region lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean: the land promised by God to Abraham. Gen. 12:5–10.
  2. Biblical name of Palestine.
  3. any land of promise.
  4. a descendant of Ham, the son of Noah. Gen. 10.

Origin of Canaan

From the Hebrew word Kenaʿan

Examples for Canaan

And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

God had brought His people into Canaan with the promise to give them the land.

God shall enlarge Japheth,
 And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem;
 And Canaan shall be his servant.

Cursed be Canaan;
 A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Lincoln supposedly said, “And so the children of Israel were driven from the happy land of Canaan?”

The country was as innocent of leechcraft as the land of Canaan in the days of Abraham.

If we could not enter the land of Canaan, we could at least behold it from Mount Pisgah.

He devotes also to anathema all the nations of the land of Canaan.

He came unannounced to make his own observations, like the spies sent into Canaan.

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