Chanaan
Americannoun
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Thus we read:— “Hunger wex in lond Chanaan; And his x sunes Jacob for-ðan 255 Sente in to Egypt to bringen coren; He bilefe at hom ðe was gungest boren.”
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Plutarch informs us that Egypt was sometimes called Chemia: this name is supposed to be derived from Chanaan.
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
But when a famine covered all the land of Chanaan they went down into Egypt, and the king of Egypt brought them low with labouring in brick and made them slaves.
From Judith, a play in three acts Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith by Bennett, Arnold
And when Joseph was come in to him, he said: God almighty apppeared to me at Luza, which is in the land of Chanaan, and he blessed me, 48:4.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision by
He is by some supposed to be the same person with Chanaan, the son of Ham, whose son Mizraim first occupied and peopled Egypt.
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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