Places of the Bible

Canaan

Country · region

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Judgeship of Jair · 1991 BC
2 Abraham enters Canaan · 1920 BC
3 Abraham and Lot Separate · 1919 BC
4 Subjugation by Cushan-rishathaim · 1417 BC
5 Deliverance by Othniel · 1409 BC
6 Subjugation by Eglon · 1377 BC
7 Deliverance by Ehud · 1360 BC
8 Subjugation by Jabin · 1297 BC
9 Deliverance by Barak And Deborah · 1277 BC
10 Subjugation by Midian · 1257 BC
11 Deliverance by Gideon · 1250 BC
12 Usurpation by Abimelech · 1217 BC
13 Judgeship of Tola · 1214 BC
14 Oppression by Ammon and Philistia · 1169 BC
15 Judgeship of Eli · 1161 BC
16 Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC
17 Judgeship of Ibzan · 1145 BC
18 Philistine Dominion · 1140 BC
19 Judgeship of Elon · 1138 BC
20 Judgeship of Abdon · 1128 BC
21 Judgeship of Samson · 1120 BC

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Canaan, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place. The numbers are the lines below.

1 7 years of famine · 1707 BC · 5 verses
2 Joseph's brothers go to Egypt · 1706 BC · 5 verses
3 Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC · 3 verses
4 Death of Jacob · 1688 BC · 1 verse
5 Wilderness Wanderings · 1490 BC · 2 verses
6 War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
7 Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
8 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 2 verses
9 Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
10 Stephen addresses the council · 30 AD · 1 verse
11 First Missionary Journey · 45 AD · 1 verse
12 Mission to Antioch in Pisidia · 45 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The country which derived its name from the preceding. The name as first used by the Phoenicians denoted only the maritime plain on which Sidon was built. But in the time of Moses and Joshua it denoted the whole country to the west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea (Deut. 11:30). In Josh. 5:12 the LXX. read, “land of the Phoenicians,” instead of “land of Canaan.”

The name signifies “the lowlands,” as distinguished from the land of Gilead on the east of Jordan, which was a mountainous district. The extent and boundaries of Canaan are fully set forth in different parts of Scripture (Gen. 10:19; 17:8; Num. 13:29; 34:8).

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 76 verses

Genesis: 11:31, 12:5, 13:12, 16:3, 17:8, 23:2, 23:19, 31:18, 33:18, 35:6, 36:5, 36:6, 37:1, 42:5, 42:7, 42:13, 42:29, 42:32, 44:8, 45:17, 45:25, 46:6, 46:10, 46:12, 46:31, 47:1, 47:4, 47:13, 47:14, 47:15, 48:3, 48:7, 49:30, 50:5, 50:13
Exodus: 6:4, 15:15, 16:35
Leviticus: 14:34, 18:3, 25:38
Numbers: 13:2, 13:17, 26:19, 32:30, 32:32, 33:40, 33:51, 34:2, 34:29, 35:10, 35:14
Deuteronomy: 32:49
Joshua: 5:12, 14:1, 21:2, 22:9, 22:10, 22:11, 22:32, 24:3
Judges: 3:1, 4:2, 4:23, 4:24, 5:19, 21:12
1 Chronicles: 16:18
Psalms: 105:11, 106:38, 135:11
Isaiah: 19:18, 23:11
Zephaniah: 2:5
Acts: 7:11, 13:19

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.