Dict: smith - CANAANITES, THE

smith:

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.