1. canaanite - Noun
2. canaanite - Adjective
3. Canaanite - Proper noun
A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.
A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
A zealot.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA 3,200-year-old Canaanite citadel where epic battles were fought during biblical times has been unearthed near the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Sunday. Source: Internet
All are towns, except for three lands including Canaan * AT 48: A contract with a Canaanite hunter Amarna letters Amarna tablet EA 9 References to Canaanites are also found throughout the Amarna letters of Pharaoh Akenaton circa 1350 BC. Source: Internet
Canaanite and Phoenician views of Heaven : main Almost nothing is known of Bronze Age (pre-1200 BC) Canaanite views of Heaven, and the archeological findings at Ugarit (destroyed c. 1200 BC) have not provided information. Source: Internet
By the time of the Second Temple, "Canaanite" in Hebrew had come to be not an ethnic designation, so much as a general synonym for "merchant", as it is interpreted in, for example, Job 40:30, or Proverbs 31:24. Source: Internet
Hebrew texts are peppered with references to and prohibitions against pre-Judaic practices associated with Moloch, a Canaanite god to whom children were sacrificed for the greater good. Source: Internet
However, many Semitic scholars now believe that Ancient Greek is more consistent with an early form Canaanite that was used c. 1100 BCE. Source: Internet