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People of the Bible

Canaan

also called Canaanites, Canaanite

Family

Father
Ham
Brothers and sisters
Cush (son of Ham), Mizraim, Phut
Children
Amorite, Arkite, Arvadite, Girgasite, Hamathite, Heth, Hivite, Jebusite, Sinite, Zemarite, Zidon

In the story

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

  • Noah gets drunk and Canaan is cursed · 2345 BC
  • War with Canaanites · 1450 BC

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven sons, who were the founders of as many tribes (10:15-18).

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

Named in 84 verses

Genesis
9:18, 9:22, 9:25, 9:26, 9:27, 10:6, 10:15, 11:31, 16:3, 17:8, 23:2, 23:19, 28:1, 28:6, 28:8, 31:18, 33:18, 35:6, 36:2, 36:5, 36:6, 37:1, 42:5, 42:7, 42:13, 42:29, 42:32, 44:8, 45:17, 45:25, 46:6, 46:12, 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
5:1, 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
1:8, 1:13, 16:18
Isaiah
19:18
Ezekiel
16:3, 16:29
Zephaniah
2:5
Matthew
15:22

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.