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canaanite

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1. canaanite - Noun

2. canaanite - Adjective

3. Canaanite - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

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A 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

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