First name Canaan in the world's Bibles
In the bible, Canaan is the name of the son of Ham (GEN 9:18), cursed by Noah (GEN 9:25). Meaning of the name: merchant; trader; or that humbles and subdues. Related names are: Israel, Jacob, Egypt . The translations of Canaan in 79 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Canaán in Spanish to カナン in Japanese!
Wear it!And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan. (GEN 9:18)
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (GEN 9:22)
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. (GEN 9:25)
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (GEN 9:26)
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (GEN 9:27)
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. (GEN 10:6)
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, (GEN 10:15)
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. (GEN 11:31)
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (GEN 12:5)
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. (GEN 12:5)
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. (GEN 13:12)
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. (GEN 16:3)
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. (GEN 17:8)
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. (GEN 23:2)
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. (GEN 23:19)
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. (GEN 28:1)
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; (GEN 28:6)
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; (GEN 28:8)
And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. (GEN 31:18)
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. (GEN 33:18)
So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him. (GEN 35:6)
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; (GEN 36:2)
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. (GEN 36:5)
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. (GEN 36:6)
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. (GEN 37:1)
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. (GEN 42:5)
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. (GEN 42:7)
And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not. (GEN 42:13)
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, (GEN 42:29)
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. (GEN 42:32)