1. Canaan - Noun
2. Canaan - Proper noun
an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
Source: WordNetI care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried, secret lingerings in prayer. J. Sidlow Baxter
Green fields and rolling hills, Room enough to do what we will. Sweet dreams of yestertime Are running though my mind Of a place I left behind. Been so long, I can't remember when, I've been to Canaan and I wanna go back again. Carole King
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! Isaac Leib Peretz
We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness. Ravi Zacharias
The Conquest of Joshua could not have been a primitive assault, because a civilized land like Canaan with well-fortified cities could easily have repulsed an attack that was militarily naïve. ...Spies were sent to search out the land and lay the groundwork. Cyrus H. Gordon
Abraham, too, was circumcised when he moved into Canaan. Source: Internet