What Is Canaanite in the Bible?
Person
From Canaan, the land God promised to Abraham, before Israel came.
A detail
- “Simon the Cananean”: here it does not mean from Canaan: in the language of Jesus it means “the zealous one,” like “Zealot.”
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 12:6; Matthew 10:4
What the Bible says
Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
Matthew 10:4
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Genesis 12:6; NAB note on Matthew 10:2-4