Canaanitish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
All these labors were thrown, not on the Israelites, but on the strangers who, chiefly of Canaanitish descent, had been permitted to inhabit the country.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
There a Canaanitish woman begged him to cure her daughter.
From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Henry Turner Bailey
More frequently their place was taken by Egyptian governors, a very considerable number of whom, however, were of Canaanitish descent.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
The city must, therefore, have been situated on the plain, the metropolis of a petty Canaanitish king; but every trace of it is gone.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
In these prophets of the time of Saul, when we first meet them, we have the type which prophesying had first assumed on Canaanitish soil.
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
