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noun - an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea
An ancient region made up of Palestine or the part of it between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
CANAAN - Canaan (; Northwest Semitic: knan; Phoenician: Kenan; Hebrew: Knan) was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd mill...
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| Any land of promise, it's the Biblical name of Palestine |
| The book of Genesis refers to the promised land by this ancient name |
| In 2000 B.C. the Israelites conquered this land whose people probably gave them the Hebrew language |
| The Biblical name for the area of Palestine |
| This grandson of Noah shares his name with the Promised Land |
| It's the land promised by God to Abraham |
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| bDefinitionb of bCANAANb. part of ancient Palestine between Jordan River amp the Mediterranean sometimes used to refer to all of ancient Palestine. |
| an ancient country is southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
| The biblical name for the area of ancient Palestine west of the River Jordan, the Promised Land of the Israelites, who conquered and occupied it during the latter part of the 2nd millennium BC. |
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Canaan (; Northwest Semitic: knan; Phoenician: Kenan; Hebrew: Knan) was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. The name Canaan occurs commonly in the Bible, where it corresponds to the Levant, in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Bible: i.e., the area of Phoenicia, Philistia, Israel and other nations. * The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populationsboth settled and nomadic-pastoral groupsthroughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan. It is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible. In the Book of Joshua, Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate, and later described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated, although this narrative is not accepted by contemporary scholarship. The name "Canaanites" ( knanm, knan) is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people la |