noun · masculine
kananaios
Strong’sG2581
the Cananaean
stem kananai-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
Καναναῖος, -ου, ὁ
(late Heb. קַנְאָנָא),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2581 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkan-an-ee'-tace
zealous; Cananites, an epithet
Fromof Chaldee origin (compare );
King JamesCanaanite (by mistake for a derivative from <span data-strongs="G5477">G5477</span>).
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
(late Heb. קָנָא),
1. an emulator, zealous admirer or follower , [5th/4th c.BC], etc.
2. a zealot , used to translate Κανανίτης or Καναναῖος (from the Hebr. qana, to glow, be zealous) , Refs 1st c.AD
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 | kananaios1×Καναναῖος | kananaiois |
| object accusative | kananaion1×Καναναῖον | kananaioin |
| direct address vocative | kananaior | kananaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kananaiou | kananaioiu |
| to, for dative | kananaio | kananaioi |
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
kananaio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
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
kananaios“Zealot”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 10:4Simōnos tos Kananaios kai Ioudos tos Iskariōtos tos kai …Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
kananaion“Zealot”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 3:18… Halfaiou kai Thaddaion kai Simōnon ton Kananaion… son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,