Canaanite

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canaanite \Ca"naan*ite\, n.
     1. A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of
        Noah.
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     2. A Native or inhabitant of the land of Canaan, esp. a


        member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the
        time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Canaanite \Ca"naan*ite\, n. [From an Aramaic word signifying
     "zeal."]
     A zealot. "Simon the Canaanite." --Matt. x. 4.
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     Note: This was the "Simon called Zelotes" (--Luke vi. 15),
           i.e., Simon the zealot. --Kitto.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Canaanite
       n 1: a member of an ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan
            before it was conquered by the Israelites
       2: the extinct language of the Semitic people who occupied
          Canaan before the Israelite conquest

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Canaanite
     a name given to the apostle Simon (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). The
     word here does not, however, mean a descendant of Canaan, but is
     a translation, or rather almost a transliteration, of the Syriac
     word Kanenyeh (R.V. rendered "Cananaen"), which designates the
     Jewish sect of the Zealots. Hence he is called elsewhere (Luke
     6:15) "Simon Zelotes;" i.e., Simon of the sect of the Zealots.
     (See {SIMON}.)