Merchant
כְּנַ֫עַןStrong’s H3667kenaan (ke-na-an)
Appears in 91 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kenaan is the Hebrew word usually translated “canaan”, “merchant” and “merchants its”. It appears in 91 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.”
Meaning
- § Canaan = "lowland"
- Merchant, trader
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.9.18
How it's translated
- canaan 86
- and canaan 4
- merchant 2
- merchants its 1
- o canaan 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 45
- Numbers 11
- Joshua 8
- Judges 6
- Exodus 3
- Leviticus 3
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
- Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
- Genesis 9:26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 9:27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
- Genesis 10:6And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
- Genesis 10:15And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
All 91 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כְּנַ֫עַן kenaan · Canaan
§ Canaan = "lowland" the land west of the Jordan peopled by the descendants of Canaan and subsequently conquered by the Israelites under Joshua
כְּנַ֫עַן kenaan · merchant
merchant, trader Also means: ke.na.a.ni (כְּנַעֲנִי "merchant" H3669B)
כְּנַ֫עַן kenaan · Canaan
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.9.18; son of: Ham (H2526); brother of: Cush (H3568), Egypt (H4714) and Put (H6316); father of: Sidon (H6721), Heth (H2845), Jebusite (H2983), Amorite (H0567), Girgashite (H1622), Hivite (H2340), Arkite (H6208), Sinite (H5513), Arvadite (H0721), Zemarite (H6786) and Hamathite (H2577) § merchant, trader
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “merchant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MER'CHANT, noun
[Latin mercor, to buy.]
- A man who trafficks or carries on trade with foreign countries, or who exports and imports goods and sells them by wholesale.
- In popular usage, any trader, or one who deals in the purchase and sale of goods.
- A ship in trade. [Not used.]
All definitions and other forms of “merchant”
MER'CHANT, verb intransitive
To trade. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.