Dict: smith - CANA

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CANA - C>@ - (place of reeds) of Galilee, once Cana in Galilee, a village or town not far from Capernaum, memorable as the scene of Christ’s first miracle, kjv@John:2:1 kjv@John:2:11 kjv@John:4:46) as well as of a subsequent one, kjv@John:4:46 kjv@John:4:54) and also as the native place of the apostle Nathanael. kjv@John:21:2) The traditional site is at Kefr
- Kenna , a small village about 4 1/2 miles northwest of Nazareth. The rival site is a village situated farther north, about five miles north of Seffurieh (Sepphoris) and nine north of Nazareth.

CANAAN - C>@ - (Ca’nan) (low, flat). The fourth son of Ham, kjv@Genesis:10:6; kjv@1Chronicles:1:8) the progenitor of the Phoenicians ZIDON, OR SIDON, and of the various nations who before the Israelite conquest people the seacoast of Palestine, and generally the while of the country westward of the Jordan. kjv@Genesis:10:13; kjv@1Chronicles:1:13) (B.C. 2347.) The name "Canaan" is sometimes employed for the country itself.

CANAAN, THE LAND OF - C>@ - (lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those waters and the Mediterranean; given by God to Abraham’s posterity, the children of Israel. kjv@Exodus:6:4; kjv@Leviticus:25:38) PALESTINA AND PALESTINE

CANANAEAN - C>@ - kjv@Matthew:10:4) Used in the Revised Version in place of "Canaanite."
See CANAANITE, THE

CANAANITE, THE - C>@ - the designation of the apostle Simon, otherwise known as "Simon Zelotes." It occurs in kjv@Matthew:10:4; kjv@Mark:3:18) and is derived from a Chaldee or Syriac word by which the Jewish sect or faction of the "Zealots" was designated
a turbulent and seditious sect, especially conspicuous at the siege of Jerusalem. They taught that all foreign rule over Jews was unscriptural, and opposed that rule in every way.

CANAANITES, THE - C>@ - a word used in two senses: A tribe which inhabited a particular locality of the land west of the Jordan before the conquest; and The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country. In kjv@Genesis:10:18-20) the seats of the Canaanite tribe are given as on the seashore and in the Jordan valley; comp. kjv@Joshua:11:3) Applied as a general name to the non
- Israelite inhabitants of the land, as we have already seen was the case with "Canaan." Instances of this are, kjv@Genesis:12:6; kjv@Numbers:21:3) The Canaanites were descendants of Canaan. Their language was very similar to the Hebrew. The Canaanites were probably given to commerce; and thus the name became probably in later times an occasional synonym for a merchant.