canaanite
Speech parts
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
However, many Semitic scholars now believe that Ancient Greek is more consistent with an early form Canaanite that was used c. 1100 BCE.