Canaanite
Americannoun
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a member of a Semitic people that inhabited parts of ancient Palestine and were conquered by the Israelites and largely absorbed by them.
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a group of Semitic languages, including Hebrew and Phoenician, spoken chiefly in ancient Palestine and Syria.
adjective
noun
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a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied the land of Canaan before the Israelite conquest
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the extinct language of this people, belonging to the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family
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(in later books of the Old Testament) a merchant or trader (Job 40:30; Proverbs 31:24)
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Etymology
Origin of Canaanite
1350–1400; Middle English ≪ Greek Kananī́tēs; see Canaan, -ite 1
Example Sentences
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The IAA identified the jugs as Canaanite, a people who resided in the lands abutting the eastern Mediterranean.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2024
By campaigning in Canaan several times, Thutmose III was able to bring the Canaanite regions back into Egypt’s orbit.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
It’s unusual to have a full sentence of Canaanite writing.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 15, 2022
Because examples of Canaanite writing around the same time period are rare and fragmentary, and because many of the engravings on the comb were faint, the work was painstaking.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
One painting clearly showed ingots being unloaded from a Canaanite ship.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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