Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
Canaan
Usage: Χαναάν, ἡ indecl. (Heb. כְּנַעַן), Canaan: Act.7:11; γῆ Χ., Act.13:19.† (AS)
Chanaan - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5477 — cuach (“Suah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5477 Χαναάν (Chanaan) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Chanaan (khan-ah-an') n/l. 1. Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H3667)] It has 96 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include chanaan. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Chanaan (khan-ah-an') n/l. 1. Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H3667)] KJV: Chanaan Root(s): H3667
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Canaan
Usage: Χαναάν, ἡ indecl. (Heb. כְּנַעַן), Canaan: Act.7:11; γῆ Χ., Act.13:19.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Chanaan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G5477 (Χαναάν) appears 98 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
87 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan.
And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.
And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, A slave shall he be to his brethren.
7 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.
First 96 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5477.
Now the sons of Noah which came out of the ark, were Shem, Ham, Japheth. And Ham was father of Canaan.
And Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he went out and told his two brothers without.
And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, A slave shall he be to his brethren.
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, And Canaan shall be his bondservant.
May God make room for Japheth, And let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, And let Canaan be his servant.
And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and the Hittite,
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came as far as Haran, and he dwelt there.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had gotten, and every soul which they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan.
And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighboring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.
So Sarai the wife of Abram having taken Hagar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.
And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou sojournest, even all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them a God.
And Sarah died in the city of Arba, which is in the valley, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to lament for Sarah and to mourn.
After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the Double Cave of the field, which is opposite Mamre, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And Isaac having called for Jacob, blessed him, and charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites.
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites;
And Esau also having seen that the daughters of Canaan were evil before his father Isaac,
and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and took up a position in front of the city.
And Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to a city of the plain; this is Hebron in the land of Canaan, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
And Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, which were born to him in the land of Canaan.
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and all his possessions, and all his cattle, and all that he had gotten, and all things whatsoever he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and Esau went forth from the land of Canaan, from the face of his brother Jacob.
And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And when Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them, and estranged himself from them, and spoke hard words to them; and said to them, Whence are ye come? And they said, Out of the land of Canaan, to buy food.
And they said, We thy servants are twelve brethren, in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is with our father today, but the other one is not.
And they came to their father, Jacob, into the land of Canaan, and reported to him all that had happened to them, saying,
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is with his father today in the land of Canaan.
If we brought back to thee out of the land of Canaan the money which we found in our sacks, how should we steal silver or gold out of the house of thy lord?
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, Do this; fill your wagons, and depart into the land of Canaan.
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
And they took up their goods, and all their property, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan; they came into the land of Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him.
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And Joseph said to his brethren, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brethren, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to me.
And Joseph came and told Pharaoh, saying, My father, and my brethren, and their cattle, and their oxen, and all their possessions, are come out of the land of Canaan, and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
And they said to Pharaoh, We are come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for the flocks of thy servants, for the famine has prevailed in the land of Canaan; now then, we will dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them dwell in the land of Goshen; and if thou knowest that there are among them able men, make them overseers of my cattle. So Jacob and his sons came into Egypt, to Joseph; and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, heard of it.
And there was no corn in all the land, for the famine prevailed greatly; and the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, fainted for the famine.
And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, in return for the corn which they bought, and he distributed corn to them; and Joseph brought all the money into the house of Pharaoh.
And all the money failed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan; and all the Egyptians came to Joseph, saying, Give us bread, and why do we die in thy presence? for our money is spent.
And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, thy mother, died in the land of Canaan, as I drew nigh to the horse course of Chabratha of the land of Canaan, so as to come to Ephrath; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem.
in the double cave which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a sepulcher.
My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.
And the inhabitants of the land of Canaan saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, and said, This is a great mourning to the Egyptians; therefore he called its name, The mourning of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.
So his sons carried him up into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the double cave, which cave Abraham bought for possession of a burying place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
And the sojourning of the children of Israel, while they sojourned in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, was four hundred and thirty years.
Then the princes of Edom, And the chiefs of the Moabites hastened; Trembling took hold upon them, All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.
Ye shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which ye dwelt: and according to the devices of the land of Canaan, into which I bring you, ye shall not do; and ye shall not walk in their ordinances.
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, so as to be your God.
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up by this wilderness; and ye shall go up to the mountain,
And the sons of Judah, Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
And the Lord said to Moses, Go up to the mountain that is in the country beyond Jordan, this Mount Nebo, and behold the land Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.
But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Canaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Canaan.
We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.
And Arad the Canaanitish king (he too dwelt in the land of Canaan) having heard when the children of Israel were entering the land—
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan.
Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Canaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan with its boundaries.
These did the Lord command to distribute the inheritances to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to cross over Jordan into the land of Canaan.
Ye shall assign three cities on the other side of Jordan, and ye shall assign three cities in the land of Canaan.
Lo! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Canaan, which lies westward near Gilgal, by the high oak?
Go up to the Mount Abarim, this mountain Nebo which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho, and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the sons of Israel:
from Thaeman even to all the land of Canaan before Gaza, and the Sidonians as far as Aphek, as far as the borders of the Amorites.
And these are they of the children of Israel that received their inheritance in the land of Canaan, to whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave inheritance.
And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord gave commandment by Moses to give us cities to dwell in, and the country round about for our cattle.
So the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, departed from the children of Israel in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go away into Gilead, into the land of their possession, which they inherited by the command of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.
And they came to Gilead of Jordan, which is in the land of Canaan: and the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to look at.
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the borders of the land of Canaan at Gilead of Jordan, on the opposite side to the children of Israel.
So Phinehas the priest and the princes departed from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, and from the half tribe of Manasseh out of Gilead into the land of Canaan to the children of Israel; and reported the words to them.
And these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known the wars of Canaan.
And the Lord sold the children of Israel into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor; and the chief of his host was Sisera, and he dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
So God routed Jabin king of Canaan in that day before the children of Israel.
And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin king of Canaan, until they utterly destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Kings set themselves in array, Then the kings of Canaan fought In Taanach at the water of Megiddo; They took no gift of money.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, Put and Canaan.
Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, The line of your inheritance:
Saying, To thee will I give the land of Canaan, The line of your inheritance:
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was defiled with blood,
Sihon king of the Amorites, And Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan:
And thy hand prevails no more by sea, which troubled kings: the Lord of hosts has given a command concerning Canaan, to destroy the strength thereof.
and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord to Jerusalem; Thy root and thy birth are of the land of Canaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Canaan; he laid them up in a walled city.
As for Canaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
Lament, ye that inhabit the city that has been broken down, for all the people has become like Canaan; and all that were exalted by silver have been utterly destroyed.
Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling place.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
and he said unto them, Tell me now, ye sons of Canaan, who this people is, that dwelleth in the hill country, and what are the cities that they inhabit, and what is the multitude of their army, and wherein is their power and strength, and what king is set over them, or captain of their army;
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
But when a famine covered all the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, while they were nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.
After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother, that the children of Jambri made a great marriage, and were bringing the bride from Nadabath with a great train, as being the daughter of one of the great princes of Canaan.
It hath not been heard of in Canaan, neither hath it been seen in Teman.
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Chanaan (Strong's G5477) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Chanaan". Chanaan (khan-ah-an') n/l. 1. Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H3667)]
This page currently indexes 96 linked usages for Strong's G5477 across 19 books.
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Yes. The current local index includes 87 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 7 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5477, with linked reader references where each row is available.