Dict: easton - Canaanite

easton:

Canaanite @ a name given to the apostle Simon kjv@Matthew:10:4; kjv@Mark:3:18). The word here does not, however, mean a descendant of Canaan, but is a translation, or rather almost a transliteration, of the Syriac word Kanenyeh (R.V. rendered "Cananaen"), which designates the Jewish sect of the Zealots. Hence he is called elsewhere kjv@Luke:6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots. (
See SIMON.)