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Inhabitant of ancient Palestine
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canaanite
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canaanite \Ca"naan*ite\, n. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
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Canaanite may refer to: Canaan and Canaanite people, a historical/Biblical region and people in the area of the present-day Levant Canaanite languages Canaanite religion Canaanites (movement) , an early Israelite non-Zionist movement.
Usage examples of canaanite.
Was it so obvious, then, that Lord Sheftu was taking a peculiar interest in the Canaanite princess?
They embark upon their Canaanite existence without courage, without even enthusiasm.
He supposes Cadmus to have been a fugitive Canaanite, who fled from the face of Joshua: and that he was called Cadmus from being a Cadmonite, which is a family mentioned by Moses.
Such was the glory, perfection, order, and unity of this house, that the altar of Damascus could have no peace, the Canaanite no rest, heresy no hatching, schism no footing, Diotrephes no incoming, the papists no couching, and Jezebel no fairding.
A couple of the offers came from her father, a Canaanite merchant with an enormous fortune, and a couple came from her.
Jacob told Rebekah later that Esau and his Canaanite friends later mocked what Father had said.
That if he married a woman of Canaan, whether she called herself a Canaanite or a daughter of Heth, in the long run it would mean that his children would not worship God?
The one working the bellows was Baal-Hadad, the other was Baal-Quarnain, Canaanite deities who had been living quietly for some thousands of years, since the last of their worshipers had died.
Martha, her fervour undiminished, had remained to serve in the household of Bishop Macarius, but my faithful Cunoarda was still with me, and my Canaanite dog, and the little thorn tree.
The overall structure, with its retaining walls, cloisters, massive pillars, and courtyards within courtyards, covering thirty-six acres, was virtually a carbon copy of the First Temple, which is to say, ironically, it was an ancient and thoroughly pagan Phoenician or Canaanite design.
She would have suffered somewhat because of this, and styling herself a Canaanite, a member of a lost race, is her poetic way of dealing with that confusion, that pain.
Together we rode northward against the Keftyews and the Canaanites and gazed at last on the strange Euphrates, the river which flows the wrong way.
Tyre and Sidon, was in the possession of the Canaanites, and called Canaan.
The migration of the Canaanites, their establishment in Syria, and the Shepherd invasion of Egypt are, by many Arab writers, attributed to an expedition of Shedad.
These facts must be true and strictly historical, for they are everywhere met with among the Cushites, as among the Canaanites, their brothers by origin.