noun · feminine
chanaan
Strong’sG5477
Canaan
stem chanaan-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Χαναάν, ἡ indecl. (Heb. כְּנַעַן),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5477 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhan-ah-an'
Chanaan (i.e. Kenaan), the early name of Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King JamesChanaan.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Canaan:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chanaan | chanaan |
| object accusative | chanaan1×Χανάαν | chanaan |
| direct address vocative | chanaan | chanaan |
| of, belonging to genitive | chanaan1×Χανάαν | chanaan |
| to, for dative | chanaan | chanaan |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
chanaan“Canaan”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 7:11… limos epi holan tan Aiguptan kai Chanaan kai thlipsias megas, kai ouk heuriskale …… great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find …
chanaan“Canaan”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 13:19kai kathairarantos ethneim hepta en gēa Chanaan kataklēronomata tan gēan auteiuAnd having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His …