Person
Canaan
Also called Canaanites, Canaanite
Mentioned in 84 verses across 12 books, first in Numbers 13:2. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
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In the Bible
All 11 verses in Numbers, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Numbers
- Numbers 13:2
“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
- Numbers 13:17
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
- Numbers 26:19
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 32:30
But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”
- Numbers 32:32
We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”
- Numbers 33:40
Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
- Numbers 33:51
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 34:2
“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
- Numbers 34:29
These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 35:10
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 35:14
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
Events
Events the dataset lists Canaan as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 2346 BCNoah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed
- c. 1451 BCWar with Canaanites
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18).