Merchant
כְּנַעֲנִיStrong’s H3669kenaani (ke-na-a-ni)
Appears in 71 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kenaani is the Hebrew word usually translated “canaanite”, “against the canaanite” and “among the canaanite”. It appears in 71 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.”
Meaning
- Group of ke.na.an (כְּנַ֫עַן "Canaan" H3667A)
- A merchant, trader
- Describing a woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.46.10
How it's translated
- the canaanite 49
- and the canaanite 12
- a canaanite 2
- to the canaanite 2
- against the canaanite 2
- among the canaanite 1
- canaanite 1
- the canaanites 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 15
- Joshua 14
- Genesis 11
- Exodus 9
- Numbers 7
- Deuteronomy 4
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 10:18And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
- Genesis 10:19And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
- Genesis 12:6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
- Genesis 13:7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
- Genesis 15:21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
- Genesis 24:3And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
All 71 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani · Canaanite
Group of ke.na.an (כְּנַ֫עַן "Canaan" H3667A) § Canaanite, of Cana "zealous" adj descendant or inhabitant of Canaan
כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani · merchant
a merchant, trader Group of ke.na.an (כְּנַ֫עַן "merchant" H3667B)
כְּנַעֲנִי kenaani · Canaanitess
Describing a woman living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.46.10; mother of: Shaul (H7586H) § a 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.