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Bookmark or Share- Canaan | Definition, Map, History, & Facts | BritannicaThe Israelites occupied and conquered Palestine, or Canaan, beginning in the late 2nd millennium bce, or perhaps earlier; and the Bible justifies such occupation by identifying Canaan with the Promised Land, the land promised to the Israelites by God.
- Canaan (son of Ham) - WikipediaCanaan from "Nuremberg Chronicles" Canaan (Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənā́ʿan), according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was a son of Ham and grandson of Noah, as well as the father of the Canaanites.
- Canaan - World History EncyclopediaCanaan was the name of a large and prosperous ancient country (at times independent, at others a tributary to Egypt) located in the Levant region of present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. It...
- Land and Time - Canaan & Ancient Israel @ University of ...To the authors of the Bible, Canaan is the land which the tribes of Israel conquered after an Exodus from Egypt and the Canaanites are the people they disposed from this land. The Old Testament of the Bible (also known as Tanak) is principally concerned with the religious history of Israel in Canaan.
- The Land of Canaan - Jewish Virtual LibraryThe Land of Canaan (Heb. אֶרֶץ]כְּנַעַן ,כְּנָעַן]]), was promised to the Israelites by God (e.g., Gen. 17:8; Ex. 6:4). The name Canaan first appears in documents from the 15 th century B.C.E. and was variously written: Akkadian: Kinani ( m ), Kinaḫḫu / i , etc.; Egyptian: Kn ʿ n·w and P - kn ʿ n ; Ugaritic: Kn ʿ ny ...
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