Canaanitish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Phœnician tradition stoutly maintained that the ancestors of the Canaanitish people had come from the Persian Gulf.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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 Finn, James
A Canaanitish Homer could have invented nothing better than the journeys of Jacob and the marriage of Rebecca.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
For a while it obeyed the same sovereign and was administered by the same laws; the natives of Canaan held office in the court of the Pharaoh, and Egyptian governors ruled in the Canaanitish cities.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
The high places about the court were filled with foreigners whose names proclaim their Canaanitish origin; even the Vizier was called Dudu, the Biblical Dodo, to which the name of David is akin.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
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