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Ancient Palestinian region
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canaan
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Canaan , according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible , was a son of Ham and grandson of Noah , and was the father of the Canaanites . He was the recipient of the so-called Curse of Ham .
Usage examples of canaan.
The late Bronze and early Iron Age Greeks were becoming masters of the ancient Aegean just about when the Amorites, Moabites, and earliest Habiru or Hebrews were overrunning Canaan.
Under this character both the sons of Chus, and the Anakim of Canaan are included.
The trail had not yet crossed any of the narrow, muddy creeks that criss-crossed that end of Canaan, but several times it had swung so close to one of them that we glimpsed the black streak that was water glinting dully in the shadows of the thick growth.
Canaan, but several times it had swung so close to one of them that we glimpsed the black streak that was water glinting dully in the shadows of the thick growth.
They were joined in their expeditions by other nations, especially by the collateral branches of their family, the Mizraim, Caphtorim, and the sons of Canaan.
The Lamanites of the mainland are descending upon the Mormon kingdom as the hosts of Israel upon Canaan!
Canaan, which was also known as the land of Israel, in the spring of the year Christians called 1197, Muslems prayed openly but with a sense of unease.
Her first glance was at the river, which lay, like Jordan, between her and the Canaan of liberty on the other side.
This is what Noah says when he wakes out of drunkenness and realizes that his youngest son, Ham, father of Canaan, has seen him naked.
The city that had occupied Mesa Canaan was now marching across the plain.
And to visit the western limb of Expolis Canaan, where my parents live now.
Its dainty springs of sweet water are praised not only by Higginson and Wood, but even the mischievous Morton says, that for its delicate waters Canaan came not near this country.
Jacob charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.
Farbach added, with magnificent calmness, "my trade iss larchly owitside off Canaan, und it iss bedder dot here der laws shoult be enforced der same fer all.
It was also by this prophetic spirit that, when his middle son-that is, the son who was younger than the first and older than the last born-had sinned against him, he cursed him not in his own person, but in his son’s (his own grandson’s), in the words, "Cursed be the lad Canaan.